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Introduce HIDDEN exits, please!

I maintain a custom TOR core for Russians, which is used by hundreds of people (259 stars on Github).

https://github.com/Verity-Freedom/Tor-Portable

Just to say why my opinion may be important and I'm not a regular user.

Tor is regularly targeted by corporations. Since all its exits are publicly accessible, blocks occur constantly and selectively on many sites. There is a huge number of sites that are not accessible with Tor. Even YouTube blocks a lot of videos for Tor.

An entry node that is not publicly accessible is called a bridge (vanilla bridge and many more complex protocols). I don't see any reason why exits can't be made private from public listing like hidden entry nodes (bridges). YouTube and Discord are blocked in Russia, but Discord forbids sending images from most exits of Tor, and YouTube constantly blocks music videos. Tor is becoming unfit for bypassing government blocks.

I'm asking for a sub-type of exits that won't be publicly listed, just like bridges. Otherwise, Tor will continue to lose relevance over time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_ItSLCZWb0 is inaccessible from Tor (generally with very few exceptions)

https://gemini.google.com/ is inaccessible from Tor (generally with very few exceptions)

Wikipedia editing is inaccessible from Tor

Sending images in Discord is inaccessible from Tor (generally with very few exceptions)

Pixiv.net is inaccessible from Tor

And many-many-many others, obviously.

I believe it's not a right of a corporation to block my access for its services just because I use Tor. Its a problem for the countries in which the services listed above are blocked. It's not a hard thing to solve because hidden entry nodes already exist, but it would be a BREAKTHROUGH in fighting censorship!

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