(July 9, 2019 at 3:19 am)FlatAssembler Wrote:(July 8, 2019 at 11:35 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Bridges are needed because some governments (such as China) actively block Tor entry nodes, and some ISPs do deep-packet inspection on entry nodes. Better yet, volunteer your computer as being a middle-only Tor relay; easy to setup. I was a Tor middle-only relay for 7 years until I dumped my broadband ISP in favor on just using Verizon as a hotspot for my Internet; am saving about 1.5K per year, but, alas, I can no longer run a Tor relay.Volunteering to Tor with a computer you work on, and which you have to restart every now and then, is probably doing more harm than good (making connections break). Plus, the Internet connection on the Croatian CrisisConnection ISP, though they say it's 8 mbps, often drops below 1 mbps, and breaks for at least an hour almost every day (I then use the cellular network).
Plus, I am not really sure volunteering a obfs4 bridge helps people in China, Turkey or Iran, since the vast majority of Tor users there use "meek".
Just create a task in Task Scheduler to auto-start it; also, any bridge is a helpful bridge, as Tor is a global network. Check out the Tor FAQ; as long as your relay is up for at least an hour at a time, it's helpful, as the Tor Browser automatically changes circuits every 10 minutes anyway.
