[userstats-bridge-combined-ru-2025-09-24-2025-12-23] Around December 20th, reports of difficulties accessing the Tor browser increased again. Snoflake works, but one of my sources reported low speed. On the other hand, ntc.party forum posts describe how blocking access to even old OBFS4 bridges ca…

More reports of problems connecting to bridges. It’s not clear what type. https://ntc.party/t/памятка-обход-блокировки-tor/14188/41

At ntc.party describes some Siberian internet blocking. They respond to certain patterns, but everything appears chaotic. Usually, new blocking methods are tested in remote regions. https://ntc.party/t/какой-метод-обхода-блокировок-будет-актуален-в-2026-году/22139/10 по второму - там все настольк…

I’m getting reports of problems connection tor via the snowflake bridge. These days rkn is again blocking popular hostings. Probably snowflake bridges adress were included in the blocklist

No wonder, according to an article someone wrote , where they tested IP addresses for this kind of block, more than 225 million IP’s are affected.

It’s unlikely that it’s because of a lack of Snowflake proxies.

I can confirm that 16kb is enough to bootstrap snowflake, meaning 16kb whitelists do not affect snowflake reachability. However there is something else that does now. A dynamic system of punishment when you accidentally connect to random IPs that censors deem bad, it’s uncertain how or why it happen…

[image] anon314893516: I can confirm that 16kb is enough to bootstrap snowflake, meaning 16kb whitelists do not affect snowflake reachability. But is it enough to use Snowflake? Do you mean the broker reachability, or just a bootstrap including the p2p connection? [image] anon314893516: …

[image] unic3rn: “if a client connects to IP “A”, or any of that sort, then he gets banned from such for a random amount of time spanning from 1 minute to 4”, etc?… Originally it was just dht from couple years back https://ntc.party/t/16713 now it devolved into this https://ntc.party/t/22222 …

Thanks for clarifying. [image] anon314893516: If anyone reading this and is node operator PLEASE, DO NOT HOST on major hosting providers like aws, akamai, vultr, cdnext, cdn77, scaleway etc. They all screwed right now *Bridge node operators, and if you want to know more about the affected pr…

As I understand it, these modules are software. They can even conflict with each other. There’s a known anti-fake module, 16 KB. Perhaps something new has appeared, but there’s little information yet.

Apparently, a new wave of Tor blocking is underway in Russia

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The new block against VLESS appears to be affecting bridges.