[tor-bugs] #30350 [Obfuscation/Snowflake]: Hello, in China, currently, Tor Browser 8.5a11 version can't connect to Tor network through Snowflake bridge.

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#30350: Hello, in China, currently, Tor Browser 8.5a11 version can't connect to Tor
network through Snowflake bridge.
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 Reporter:  amiableclarity2011     |          Owner:  cohosh
     Type:  defect                 |         Status:  accepted
 Priority:  Medium                 |      Milestone:
Component:  Obfuscation/Snowflake  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                 |     Resolution:
 Keywords:                         |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:                         |         Points:
 Reviewer:                         |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by cohosh):

 > I'm not sure item 3, tracking where proxies are blocked, is necessarily
 a priority. Round-the-clock proxy-go was never meant to be a permanent
 thing, only a stopgap until we have actual organic proxies (#20813). The
 idea is that eventually we don't rely on long-lived proxies running at
 static IP addresses, because if we do that we're playing the bridge
 distribution game, and doing it worse than BridgeDB does. IMO the browser
 extension (#23888) is the priority for getting actually diverse
 snowflakes.
 This makes sense to me, I think we do need to do something about item 2 as
 well though. I wasn't able to test the behaviour of tor browser at the VPS
 but just the Tor client was having trouble quickly deciding whether or not
 the proxy was being blocked. I suppose this won't be as big an issues when
 we have more diverse proxies though.

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