[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:
   Resolution:                |   Keywords:  tbb-usability
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Comment (by asn):

 Replying to [ticket:11071 mikeperry]:
 > 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".

 With regards to the bridgedb link, I think that TBB should suggest
 BridgeDB URLs to users. For example, for Chinese users it will point them
 to the page with obfs3 bridges, whereas for 'Other' it will send them to a
 more general page. The user shouldn't really understand the URL schema
 anyway.

 If we want to avoid exposing transports to users at all costs, we can
 customize BridgeDB so that it supports country-specific URLs:
 https://bridges.torproject.org/china .

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