I am trying to bypass the restrictions on my school’s wifi using Tor. However, it can’t connect to the network even when i use a bridge. I also tried Brave’s Tor mode. How do they do this? How do I get around it?
Try other bridges.
Did you try snowflake?
When you use Tor your ISP knows you are using TOR. They just can’t see what you are doing inside Tor. Tor itself is not a VPN. A network can ban Tor.
Prepare a Tor download installation file, bring it with you on school somehow if your school blocks the tor website and once you have installed Tor Browser, experiment with the bridge modes, obfs4 should work but if otherwise give meek-azure a try, meek-azure is very likely to work though it will be noticeably slower. If you cannot even get bridges while being in the tor network, prepare a portable Tor installation with the bridges already setup and you shall be set.
Unless you are talking about a case where only whitelisted IPs are allowed to route through, You could probably get around this using bridges.
Set it to run on port 80, and 443. Their blocking ports
Did you try requesting bridges from bridges.torproject.org? Did you try to use snowflake?
I doubt your school blocks snowflake, if they really did that they either use a whitelist instead of a blacklist for filtering or they are better than many governments like China or Iran in blocking.
Use snowflake, it should work in almost every case.
However it would probably heavily limit network speed.
As for obfs4 bridges, they exist for a long time and now they can be blocked by your ISP, it just requires a little more effort than just blocking Tor relay IPs.
You could also try to set up a VPN or run your private bridge from home/rented VPS. But if you have your own VPN and you just need to access internet from school, using Tor shouldn’t be necessary.
Not sure if it works, but i think that by using the snowflake bridge your isp or school shouldn’t see that you’re using tor.
In case that doesn’t work use a vpn
They either banned your mac address or try a different bridge
your school might just be whitelisting addresses instead of blacklisting. For example, if you are only allowed to access google’s ips - you cannot really access anything else.
do automatic configuration
Yes, but I’m not sure if I did so correctly
Yes, but the whole point of a bridge is to hide the fact that you’re using tor.
But you’re not supposed to use TOR and a VPN. /s
No, it’s definitely a blacklist because every few months a new unblocked games website is discovered and circulated
A simple packet filter can be tricked into letting past bridge traffic because it isn’t looking very hard and has no sense of time.
A human or advanced stream analysis tool can tell. A simple analysis tool can tell if someone is investigating you specifically.
No it’s not.
A bridge is designed to connect to Tor when it’s blocked either by your ISP,your employer, or whomever.
A bridge does absolutely nothing to hide the fact that you’re using Tor.
This is one of those situations where it makes sense.
A bridge does absolutely nothing to hide the fact that you’re using Tor.
Bridges “can help obfuscate your connections to the Tor Network, making it more difficult for anyone watching your internet traffic to determine that you are using Tor.”
Quote from https://bridges.torproject.org/
…this is the most contradictory nonsense. If your ISP is set to block Tor traffic, then to connect to Tor, you would have to hide the fact that you’re using Tor.