[tor-bugs] #11071 [Tor Launcher]: Change PT type dropdown to "China" and "Other"

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#11071: Change PT type dropdown to "China" and "Other"
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 Reporter:  mikeperry      |          Owner:  brade
     Type:  enhancement    |         Status:  new
 Priority:  major          |      Milestone:
Component:  Tor Launcher   |        Version:
 Keywords:  tbb-usability  |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:                 |         Points:
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 At the dev meeting, we discussed making both BridgeDB and Tor Launcher
 maintain a table of country to disallowed PT types. Right now, we only
 have one country that blocks PTs based on DPI of their transport format:
 China. They only do this with vanilla bridges and obfs2 at the moment.

 The idea is if the user seltects "China", Tor Launcher will pick a PT type
 at random from everything but the types that "China" excludes, and use
 default bridges from that type from then on. For "Other", it would select
 a type from all types, with no exclusions.

 Unfortunately, this is tricky because we still want to expose the selected
 PT type so the user can at least easily click on a bridgedb link for that
 type. It is also tricky in that we probably need to localize the country
 names, as well as "Other".

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