Understanding, if there were many exit nodes but guard or middle were Legal issues () and have the highest requirements (). () and I suppose always will be, as they are the most prone to raise I'm not an expert at all, but the most needed type of relay is exit On 2/4/22 10:40, Eldalië via tor-relays wrote:Īnd generally, what's more needed atm: bridge, non-exit, exit or Wrapping up Run a Tor bridge campaign | The Tor Project Help Censored Users, Run a Tor Bridge | The Tor Project Run Tor Bridges to Defend the Open Internet | The Tor Project So maybe more bridges is the answer?īut I really cannot tell because I don't have enough insights and so I just went with bridges (time to be blocked for a usual bridge would be really interesting to know if/when I should convert the bridges to regular nodes or change IP addressing).

If you take a look at Traffic – Tor Metrics it seems to me like there is much more advertised bandwidth than consumed bandwidth for all flags. So some non-exits might also be handy in case onion service usage picks up. If you don't use HiddenServiceSingleHopMode for you onion services, six tor nodes are in between the visitor and the server which results in a lot of bandwidth usage in the tor network. If you are able to run the node for many years with the same IP addressing, maybe a non-bridge would be better, so the node might become a fallback-authority node one day. a server in a cloud/with a hoster where you can spin instances up/down on a regular basis (weekly/monthly?) and change the IP in this process, might be good for bridges in case they got blocked by a censor (no idea on how long a usual bridge is usable before it gets blocked in parts of the world). I think the answer might also depend on what kind of servers you are able to run. At different times a shortage of one or the other node might occur. So I'd say the statement in the FAQ is a little bit to simple. Was/is (?) a shortage and/or countries changed their censorship policy (e. Tor project runs campaigns for running more bridges because there

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