I assume it’s fine – and also very fast – to have Tor-browser connect via localhost on same machine hosting a stand-alone snowflake proxy but thought I’d ask here in case I’m missing something with respect to loss of anonymity, etc.
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I don’t think it would be very fast. With the setup you describe you would essentially just set the snowflake bridges as your permanent guard. Those bridges already have iirc already plenty of users so there isn’t much bandwidth to get.
Also i don’t know if it is even possible to specify your snowflake proxy in torbrowser instead of just getting one assigned by the broker.
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Yes, it’s fine, but completely pointless. It’s as fast as connecting to Tor without any proxies, but a little less private because you’d also make connections to STUN servers and the Snowflake broker, and your entry node is fixed.
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I see your point. Re-testing just now without any proxies selected seems to connect at about the same speed. I only thought to try using proxy@localhost due to past issues where Tor-browser seems to hang during connection and as far as I’m aware there isn’t a simple way to discern what exactly causes such hangs.
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