I’m usually running both a obfs4 and a webtunnel bridge (I’ve turned off the WT bridge since a few months because of this issue). I was looking to also run a Snowflake proxy because there isn’t enough snowflakes since what’s happening in Iran.
I’ve heard that it was ok to run both a obfs4 and a webtunnel, since the first one is blocked by protocol and the second one by domain name.
But I was wondering for the Snowflake proxy. Is it useful to run one alongside an obfs4 and WT, or will it just decrease the risk of my obfs4 and WT bridges being blocked ?
will it just *increase* the risk of my obfs4 and WT bridges being blocked ?
If so, I don’t think so. Whether blocking one will affect the other will ultimately depend on how your bridge or your proxy is blocked, but even if either is blocked by IP (thereby affecting the other), the setup you described should generally be useful in the long run and it does not meaningfully increase the risk of your bridges being blocked, especially if your IP rotates periodically.
Question - if an adversary has the means to go after (i.e., block) each contributor of a type of service, say the snowflake proxies, by their IP addresses, what stops it from doing the same with obfs4 bridges in the first place?
Sure, if a snowflake proxy is blocked by its IP, the obfs4 bridge gets blocked too, but it’s hard to imagine a scenario where the adversary is capable of blocking the proxies by IP but not the bridges, or vice-versa.