Snowflake for Chrome

From public WiFi and workplace connection to ISP and country-wide censorship, more and more Internet connection are being filtered, thus not allowing users from certain geographic areas to access certain types of information. The good news is that there are some effective ways to bypass censorship and access the desired content.

Snowflake is an extension for Chrome that acts like a WebRTC pluggable transport for Tor so that you can bypass the filters and view content from around the world.

Even though it is developed by The Tor Project team, it is important to note that the utility does not have the same power to overcome connections where Internet access is censored. If you are in a geographic area where you are dealing with this issue, the developers recommend that you download and install Tor Browser.

Nevertheless, installing this Chrome extension as a user from a non-censored region allows you to help others in censored networks. This way you are basically creating a proxy that enables users to access the desired content from all around the globe. The best part is that you do not have to worry about the websites being accessed through your proxy, as the visible IP address is configured to match their Tor exit node.

While many people from around the globe can connect and share information with each other regardless of physical location and topic, unfortunately, some countries are not exactly fond of this and even consider it a threat. Fearing how unrestricted access to information could affect their citizens, some countries invest in numerous technologies to strictly control and censor the online information available in their territory.

Luckily, you have the tools at your disposal to overcome this unfair treatment and Snowflake is designed as a system that can lend a hand with defeating Internet censorship.