[tor-bugs] #9156 [BridgeDB]: BridgeDB: Users try to add obfsbridges to their normal TBB

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#9156: BridgeDB: Users try to add obfsbridges to their normal TBB
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 Reporter:  asn       |          Owner:  isis    
     Type:  task      |         Status:  accepted
 Priority:  normal    |      Milestone:          
Component:  BridgeDB  |        Version:          
 Keywords:            |         Parent:          
   Points:            |   Actualpoints:          
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Changes (by isis):

  * keywords:  important =>
  * owner:  => isis
  * status:  needs_review => accepted
 * cc: isis@… (added)


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:23 sysrqb]:
 > Replying to [comment:22 asn]:
 > > Should I hit the merge/deploy button?
 >
 > https://github.com/sysrqb/bridgedb.git bug9156_rebased
 >
 > There is one addition to this patch. I added a description of pluggable
 transports to the page, just below "What are bridges?".
 >
 > "What are pluggable transports?
 > Pluggable Transports are used with specific bridges to help you
 circumvent censorship. They accomplish this by transforming the network
 traffic between you and the bridge so that a censor should not be able to
 detect that you are using Tor."

 Look good! Thanks! cherry-pick'd into my master
 [https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/isis/bridgedb.git/commit/792cfd99bb3a4d5a116202e76532232aba6e6312
 here] for the next deployment. (The cherry-pick was because it was only
 one commit, and there was a tiny bit of EOL whitespace.)

 Though, it seems that currently, for TBB-3.x, TorButton has no concept of
 bridges. Or, at least, I could find none in the preferences menu, nor in
 about:config. Perhaps there is some sekrit FF magic variable somewhere
 that I do not know of, but then I would wager that most users do not know
 of it either.

 So this is fine for TBB-2.x users, but might need to get changed again
 later.

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