[tor-bugs] #2443 [Company]: Remove Torbutton from addons.mozilla.org

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#2443: Remove Torbutton from addons.mozilla.org
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 Reporter:  rransom  |       Owner:  phobos
     Type:  task     |      Status:  new   
 Priority:  major    |   Milestone:        
Component:  Company  |     Version:        
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 Currently, Torbutton is [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-
 US/firefox/addon/torbutton/ available from addons.mozilla.org].  This
 listing must be removed for several reasons:

 1. Nothing currently shown on the page indicates that users must download,
 install, and run Tor in order to use Torbutton.  Multiple people have been
 confused by this fact.
 2. According to [https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/privacy-policy.html
 Mozilla's privacy policy] (currently last updated June 30, 2010),
 addons.mozilla.org records in its logs client IP addresses and times of
 accesses to the site.  Mozilla does not consider even IP addresses to be
 personally identifying information, and states that it may share the logs
 it collects with 'employees, contractors, service providers, and
 subsidiaries and related organizations'.  They do not state how long these
 logs are preserved, or in which jurisdictions the people and organizations
 with access to the logs are located.
 3. The description of Torbutton is long out of date (e.g. it links to
 bugs.tpo/flyspray for bug reports).  I assume this means that we cannot
 update the description without significant effort.

 Once the a.m.o listing is removed, we should announce the change and
 explain the reasons for it in a blog post.

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