If you run into any trouble while setting up your bridge, check out our help page and our new Forum. Note that an obfs4 bridge needs both an open OR and an open obfs4 port. We have guides for several Linux distributions, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and docker. To set up an obfs4 bridge, check out our newly revised installation instructions.

We will randomly select 10 new bridge operators to receive a metallic roots Tor t-shirt as a token of our gratitude for your help defending the open internet.

Run 1 obfs4 bridge for 1 year and you will be part of the 'reward lottery'.

Rialto bridge (randomly select 10 new bridge operator)

Run 2 obfs4 bridges for 1 year in your university.Ĥ.

University bridge kit (limited to 10 kits)

Reward kit: 1 Tor T-shirt + stickers pack.ģ.

Reward kit: 1 Tor hoodie + 2 Tor T-shirt + stickers pack.

For example, if you run 10 obfs4 bridges for one year, you can get the Golden Gate bridge kit, including 1 Tor hoodie, 2 Tor T-shirts, and a sticker pack. To show our appreciation for your volunteer work, we're offering unique and exclusive Tor reward kits.

We will wrap up the campaign on January 7, 2022. The goal of this campaign is to bring more than 200 obfs4 bridges online by the end of this year. We therefore need a constant trickle of new bridges that aren't blocked anywhere yet. It's not enough to have many bridges: eventually, all of them could find themselves in block lists. Unfortunately, these numbers have been decreasing since the beginning of this year. We currently have approximately 1,200 bridges, 900 of which support the obfs4 obfuscation protocol. Thanks to our community of bridge operators, users in China, Belarus, Iran, and Kazakhstan can connect to the Tor network and access the free and open Internet. When the Tor network is blocked, users can get a bridge to circumvent censorship. Bridges are private Tor relays that serve as stepping stones into the network.

Tor bridge sees decline server numbers