Consider privacy implications of Kindness mode

[n8fr8]

• your IP is exposed to snowflake broker and any peers you connect with
• this also happens as a snowflake user anyhow
• we should match what Tor is doing on this front (speak with duncan, etc)

[ValeZAA]

your IP is exposed to snowflake broker and any peers you connect with

That is the point: to turn Onionoo off, and sooner or later disallow sites like Wikipedia to block exit nodes using Onionoo API.

[cstiens]

Adding some context info here..

we should match what Tor is doing on this front (speak with duncan, etc)

From https://snowflake.torproject.org/: "You can join thousands of volunteers from around the world who have a Snowflake proxy installed and running. There is no need to worry about which websites people are accessing through your Snowflake proxy. Their visible browsing IP address will match their Tor exit node, not yours."

Tor may have other ways they've handled comms around this in trainings. We could reach out.

In Orbot design mockups, this is how we address it currently:

[cstiens]

your IP is exposed to snowflake broker and any peers you connect with

That is the point: to turn Onionoo off, and sooner or later disallow sites like Wikipedia to block exit nodes using Onionoo API.

@ValeZAA Would you help me better understand the concern you're raising?

[ValeZAA]

Try to edit wikipedia from Tor. Even from China bypass bridges it will not work. Why? Wikipedia uses official Onionoo API to see the exit nodes and relay nodes. It only blocks exit after https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T49626