[tor-bugs] #13765 [Website]: Website page for docs/bridges.html is severely out-of-date

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#13765: Website page for docs/bridges.html is severely out-of-date
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 Reporter:  isis         |          Owner:  isis
     Type:  defect       |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |      Milestone:
Component:  Website      |        Version:
 Keywords:  bridgedb-ui  |  Actual Points:
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 This page: https://www.torproject.org/docs/bridges.html.en

 Some things which strike me as wrong/needing update:

  * The term "obfuscated bridges". We don't use it anywhere else, and it's
 just going to confuse folks.

  * Instructing users that "you should try to use Tor without bridges
 first, since it might work" is a bad strategy for users in some places.

  * Tor Browser is called "The Tor Browser Bundle".

  * We link to a page on the wiki. I prefer that we never use the
 "official" website to direct users to the wiki, as the latter may
 obviously be defaced at any time and give users bad instructions.

  * We link to
 [https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorFAQ#IinstalledTorandPolipobutitsnotworking
 a wiki page which mentions Polipo]. (!!)

  * We don't link to the new Tor Manual/FAQ that Lunar et al. have been
 working on.

  * We mention Vidalia all over the place! (We should probably save a
 shorter, cleaned-up version of the Vidalia + Bridges instructions, on a
 separate website page somewhere, so that we can point users at it when
 they are super insistent on using Vidalia.)

  * The Freedom House video shows a crazy old version of our website,
 explains using Vidalia, and shows using the "Find Bridges Now" button in
 Vidalia (which IIRC, connected to BridgeDB ''directly'', giving away the
 user's IP). The video also references the outdated
 https://www.torproject.org/docs/bridges.html page in several places,
 including basically reading the text of the page, which isn't going to do
 us any good after we remove all this text.

  * If that weren't enough reasons to remove that video, it ''recommends
 that users move all of their email to Gmail because "encryption"''. How
 embarrassing.

  * It mentions the "Obfsproxy Tor Browser Bundle".

  * It links to https://bridges.torproject.org/?transport=obfs2 which
 doesn't even work anymore, but we still shouldn't be encouraging the use
 of obfs2.

  * "Running a Bridge" should not be mentioned here. That's a different
 topic, and should be well tied in with the FAQ and the documentation for
 relay operators on Pluggable Transports. Normally users trying to get
 their Tor to work don't care.

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