I have been using it for more than a week and now am worried about the consequences that I am not sure are true or not!
I am worried that by allowing random users to surf using my network to prevent surveillance, someone will use my address to do malicious things, and I will get into legal consequences. Also, what if many services blacklist my IP address so eventually I get a lot of restrictions in my browing experience.
Furthermore, will this extension increase my fingerprint?
Are these thoughts valid, or am I just overthinking? If anyone knows, please comment.
never do it without a VPN, a good one that has a long, proven track record of recording nothing
How/why would a VPN be useful for this ?
It’s the opposite of useful it would break snowflake. You are setting up Snowflake in the first place to give users who have to deal with VPN and IP blocks the opportunity to connect to the onion network through you - if you hide the snowflake relay behind a VPN it is useless to those users.
it would prevent your internet provider from seeing the activity of other people connecting through your PC
The ISP would only see “encrypted video call”-like traffic between you and the people who connect to Tor through your snowflake.
But if you use a VPN regularly, like always, suddenly seeing a different type of traffic would look weird
What would a vpn do for you with snowflake? Hide your IP from tor entry nodes and the bridge user. I mean sure more vpn is always great, but running snowflake without a vpn seems less bad than surfing the web without a vpn.
There are no legal risks in forwarding traffic to an entry node and your ISP knowing that you use snowflake also isnt really an issue.
VPNs are commonly used by all kinds of people for mundane things. any kind of darknet kind of stuff is often associated with illegal activity and will be seen as suspicious by your internet provider
again, it can’t just be any VPN, Proton, Mullvad, Nym…and maybe iVPN if you don’t care about the number of locations you can connect through.
you also want to have a few other things open. Anything that makes additional noise in the connection. Even if you use Mullvad’s Daita feature, it’s good to have some extra noise being made while darknet-stuff is being used
oh…I skipped over the primary purpose. If they give you the third degree about using a VPN just say that you use it to keep yourself safe from crazy people online. You can’t play that plausible deniability card with things like snowflake and Tor, but you can with a VPN that’s available to average consumers