[tor-bugs] #31085 [Circumvention/Snowflake]: Publish the Snowflake WebExtension on AMO for Android

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#31085: Publish the Snowflake WebExtension on AMO for Android
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 Reporter:  cypherpunks              |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect                   |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                   |      Milestone:
Component:  Circumvention/Snowflake  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                   |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  snowflake-webextension   |  Actual Points:
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 Reviewer:                           |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by cohosh):

 Replying to [comment:4 arlolra]:
 > > but I suppose even if it doesn't it won't hurt anyway?
 >
 > It might because, at present, recoverability for clients is suspect (ie.
 in development).
 >
 > And, from some initial testing, there's just enough time for a client to
 connect to the proxy while Firefox is a background app before resources
 are suspended and they have a bad experience (this statement may or may
 not be true).
 Yeah that's not a good sign, until we make more progress on #25429,
 proxies that run out of resources are going to cause a lot of latency at
 the client.
 >
 > An idea is to create a specialized app with the proxy-go code with the
 appropriate permissions to run in background or whatnot and put that in
 the app stores.
 In that case I'll unpublish it from android for the next release (not sure
 if that makes the old version actually go away from the web store).

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