Cupcake
Snowflake for Chrome
What is Cupcake?
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Summary
Cupcake empowers you to assist censored internet users all over the world by turning your web browser into a pathway to the Tor network. Cupcake currently supports creating Snowflake connections. Learn more here: https://snowflake.torproject.org
Important Note: if you are being censored, Cupcake cannot help you on its own. Please install the full Tor Browser Bundle.
When the censor has blocked direct access to the Tor network for a user, you can help. Installing Cupcake makes your browser into a flash proxy -- a temporary Tor bridge. After connecting with the censored user, your bridge allows communication between the user and the Tor relay, successfully circumventing the censor. Congratulations! You are a champion of internet freedom around the world!
Don't worry about your IP address being blamed for the user's requests. The source of traffic will look like the IP address of a Tor exit relay, not yours. This protects both you and the censored individual.
If you are unfamiliar with Tor, visit https://torproject.org to learn more. In short, Tor is a free service that protects privacy online. It allows users to avoid network surveillance, which threatens their privacy and freedom.
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Pros
- Helps to get past firewalls
- Useful for assisting the Tor network
- Runs in the background
- Easy to use
- This extension is a means of creating more Tor Bridges
Cons
- User Interface needs work
- One user had trouble updating it
- Some found it hard to configure
- One user said it never changes color
- Doesn't always function smoothly
Most mentioned
- Helps breach firewalls
- Contributes to Tor network
- Runs in background mode
- Issues with changing color
- Configuration difficulty
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Safety
Risk impact
Cupcake is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
Cupcake has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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