Tor’s new WebTunnel bridges mimic HTTPS traffic to evade censorship

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Much like VPNs this is pretty worthless as a long term solution if a government or provider actually wanted to block it. As soon as it's known that an IP is providing this service, blocking the IP is all that's needed. And any government/provider that really wanted to block something like this would just use a whitelist of approved servers.

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Well, the US government developed TOR. Something to think about.

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This is the same trick Microsoft Windows and many other data spying techs use to spy on you. Block that Microsoft telemetry DNS...don't worry, they will use HTTPS over one of their dozens of nameless cloud endpoints to smuggle a DNSs request past your security and use their massive IP ranges to eventually find a way to get your telemetry and dick pic's out.

Android and Android apps do the same, using Googles various back-end messaging systems, like their push service, only in the other direction. Android is largely designed for block-proof data collection and extrication. It works extremely poorly at most other things. Text messaging? Insecure crap best for spam and zero-click exploiting. Being a phone? garbage and purposelessly nerfed ability to filter spam. Being a flashlight? Terrible user experience. Being a calculator or note taking? Shitty as can be, get a small notebook instead. Today's "smart" phones aren't good at doing much except spying on you and stealing your life with brain hacking attention manipulating brain-less games.