Snowflake

Snowflake is a pluggable transport for Tor that disguises your connection as traffic to a legitimate cloud service, making it harder for network observers to detect that you're using Tor at all. Instead of connecting directly to a Tor bridge, your client talks to a temporary proxy (a "snowflake") operated by volunteers. To the ISP or firewall watching your traffic, it looks like you're accessing a normal website—not Tor. Snowflake doesn't hide *that* you're using the internet; it hides that you're using Tor. This matters in countries where Tor itself is blocked or throttled. Unlike meek, which impersonates CDN traffic, Snowflake uses a distributed volunteer proxy network, making it cheaper to operate and harder to blacklist wholesale. You don't need to configure bridges manually—the Tor Browser handles it automatically. Snowflake is most useful if your government or ISP blocks known Tor entry points but hasn't yet figured out how to block legitimate cloud services. It's not perfect: a determined adversary with packet inspection can still see *patterns* in your traffic, and the volunteer proxies could theoretically be compromised. But for casual surveillance and naive blocking, it works.