[tor-bugs] #18361 [Tor Browser]: Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance

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#18361: Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance
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 Reporter:  ioerror                       |          Owner:  tbb-team
     Type:  enhancement                   |         Status:  new
 Priority:  High                          |      Milestone:
Component:  Tor Browser                   |        Version:
 Severity:  Critical                      |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  security, privacy, anonymity  |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by HairyPotter):

 Just passing by to say... The hacktivist types with some influence may
 care about Tor, and want that treated as "special", but I have often had
 all these same problems when using a simple VPN service. (Which I use
 mostly for some little extra security when on random Wifi networks and
 also to keep my web history out of the ISP logs.)

 Sure, recently I haven't got so many. But who knows what tomorrow will
 bring? And when it does happen... It's so frustrating. And getting it
 fixed is like talking to a brick wall. A faceless corp with no recourse
 and general suggestions that it's the website owner's fault/choice for not
 choosing appropriate settings (when they most likely just accepted the
 default).

 The only way I got results is from trolling jgraham or some other employee
 on hacker news. But what's the regular or less motivated person to do?
 Nothing, they just give up.

 To be stuck behind shitty captcha after shitty unsolvable squiggle captcha
 when you just want to read some article that literally nobody is going to
 DDoS anyway. (HERE'S A THING HOW ABOUT ENABLING THE RESTRICTIONS ONLY WHEN
 SOME ACTUAL SPIKE OF TRAFFIC APPEARS).

 EEEEEEEEEEEEEK.

 1. An IP address simply does not represent a single person.
 2. It's not just Tor users who get affected by this.
 3. CloudFlare is literally the greatest evil known to mankind.

 Final point:
 hmm Tor folks, I got a whole lot of unsolvable captchas when trying to
 sign up for this Trac using Chromium incognito.

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