Tor’s new WebTunnel bridges mimic HTTPS traffic to evade censorship
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Feed Name: Bleeping Computer
The Tor Project introduced WebTunnel, a censorship-resistant pluggable transport that wraps Tor connections in WebSocket-like HTTPS to blend with normal web traffic and bypass protocol-based blocking. The report outlines how users can manually add WebTunnel bridges in Tor Browser on desktop and Android, notes current availability (about 60 bridges and 700+ daily users), and highlights mixed regional effectiveness, with limitations reported in parts of Iran.
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