Pier Angelo Vendrame pushed to branch tor-browser-128.2.0esr-14.0-1 at The Tor Project / Applications / Tor Browser

Commits: c0f033e8 by Henry Wilkes at 2024-09-11T09:02:54+02:00 fixup! Bug 42027: Base Browser migration procedures.

Bug 42777: Clear user preferences for GPC and DNT.

- - - - - f67ca0ab by Henry Wilkes at 2024-09-11T09:02:55+02:00 Bug 42777: Hide Website Privacy Preferences.

We hide the Website Privacy Preferences section, which controls the "global privacy control" (GPC) and "do not track" (DNT) settings.

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2 changed files:

- browser/components/BrowserGlue.sys.mjs - browser/components/preferences/privacy.inc.xhtml

Changes:

===================================== browser/components/BrowserGlue.sys.mjs ===================================== @@ -4812,7 +4812,9 @@ BrowserGlue.prototype = { _migrateUIBB() { // Version 1: 13.0a3. Reset layout.css.prefers-color-scheme.content-override // for tor-browser#41739. - const MIGRATION_VERSION = 1; + // Version 2: Reset the privacy tracking headers preferences since the UI + // is hidden. tor-browser#42777. + const MIGRATION_VERSION = 2; const MIGRATION_PREF = "basebrowser.migration.version"; // We do not care whether this is a new or old profile, since in version 1 // we just quickly clear a user preference, which should not do anything to @@ -4825,6 +4827,20 @@ BrowserGlue.prototype = { "layout.css.prefers-color-scheme.content-override" ); } + if (currentVersion < 2) { + for (const prefName of [ + "privacy.globalprivacycontrol.enabled", + "privacy.donottrackheader.enabled", + // Telemetry preference for if the user changed the value. + "privacy.globalprivacycontrol.was_ever_enabled", + // The last two preferences have no corresponding UI, but are related. + "privacy.globalprivacycontrol.functionality.enabled", + "privacy.globalprivacycontrol.pbmode.enabled", + ]) { + Services.prefs.clearUserPref(prefName); + } + } + Services.prefs.setIntPref(MIGRATION_PREF, MIGRATION_VERSION); },

===================================== browser/components/preferences/privacy.inc.xhtml ===================================== @@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ </vbox> </vbox> </groupbox> -<groupbox id="nonTechnicalPrivacyGroup" data-category="panePrivacy" data-subcategory="nontechnicalprivacy" hidden="true"> +<groupbox id="nonTechnicalPrivacyGroup" data-category="panePrivacy" data-subcategory="nontechnicalprivacy" data-hidden-from-search="true" hidden="true"> <label id="nonTechnicalPrivacyHeader"><html:h2 data-l10n-id="non-technical-privacy-header"/></label> <vbox id="nonTechnicalPrivacyBox"> <hbox id="globalPrivacyControlBox" flex="1" align="center" hidden="true">

View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/compare/6b115b9...