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> I ran a bridge until recently

A lifetime ago, I ran bridges from RAM only distros. But early versions of the Dan list (1st in wide use) killed that.

DL didn't try hard to differentiate between bridge IPs and exit IPs. Server hosts just grabbed the first list they saw and blocked with it.

It was years before the notion of Exit != Bridge became understood but everyone had moved on. We're at the entropic 'No One Cares Anymore' phase now.

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Were you running specifically a bridge or just a non exit relay? Bridges are generally unlisted and are somewhat expensive to mass scrape (the bridge distributors will require captcha or email or Telegram etc) so they are less likely to show up in those lists. Whereas all relays are listed in the consensus and can be trivially enumerated.

> Were you running specifically a bridge or just a non exit relay?

Good question. I was probably running Tor-ramdisk. I just looked around can't find any reference that it could serve as a bridge.

From that I infer I was running as a relay.

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