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The pluggable transports are for connections from your Tor client into the Tor network, not connections from exit nodes to the rest of the Internet. Cloudflare
by besselheim 11y ago
The pluggable transports are for connections from your Tor client into the Tor network, not connections from exit nodes to the rest of the Internet. Cloudflare (or any destination host) would still be able to detect your connection as originating via Tor.
- monoclonal 11y agoThere are innumerable ways infact to spoof the fact you're not using TOR to a website, and you can read up on these in the TOR documentation. Ideally you're looking to use TOR as the first hop, and then you dial into the wider Internet with a VPN, or as I mentioned: Using various Google services to camouflage traffic instead of a VPN. This is where pluggable transports come in, because Google doesn't like TOR, so you want to choose how you're connecting to Google, and get to traverse the TOR network to find an optimal route.
- besselheim 11y agoPluggable transports are intended to stop your local ISP detecting or blocking your connection to Tor: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/pt-spec.txt https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/pt-spec.txt While I agree that you can mask your exit from the Tor network via an additional proxy or VPN, that's not the role of pluggable transports. They're only for connecting in to the Tor network, not out from it.