Theory aside, GoAgent seems to be far more popular in China than Tor. Some reasons why this could be:
- The main download site for Tor is blocked in China ( https://en.greatfire.org/https/www.torproject.org). The main download site for GoAgent is only partially blocked ( https://en.greatfire.org/https/code.google.com/p/goagent) and the one hosted on GitHub is not blocked at all ( https://en.greatfire.org/https/github.com/goagent/goagent). - Instructions for how to use GoAgent are in Chinese. The Tor website is all in English (though the program itself is available in Chinese). - Just following the instructions for how to use GoAgent, it just works. It requires more work to configure than Tor, but the instructions are clear. Just following the instructions for Tor, it does not work (in China). Vidalia tries to connect to a few different servers, all of which are blocked in China, and gets stuck. - GoAgent is configured to bypass the proxy for domestic websites. That may not be ideal for privacy (since users can be traced by IP) but most users just want access. Browsing local sites through a foreign proxy is very slow. Users would have to manually switch the proxy on and off depending on what they are viewing - but GoAgent is smart enough to choose. - GoAgent is fast. Streaming YouTube videos works without buffering. Martin Johnson Founder of GreatFire.org and FreeWeibo.com | PGP key<https://en.greatfire.org/contact> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Karen Reilly <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Wojtek Bogusz > <[email protected]> wrote: > > thank you. > > > >> ... has been independently verified to be reasonably secure if used > right > >> by many experts and AFAIK this software has not. > > > > this is the reason i am asking on this list. hoping for answers and help. > > > >> I am hard pressed to think of a situation where using this would be > >> preferable over TOR. > > > > it is when Tor is not working. > > > > If you prefer Tor, an email to [email protected] is called for > when this happens. Use of obfs3 bridges is a good step before > resorting to a single-hop proxy. > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >
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