[tor-bugs] #21952 [Webpages]: .Onion everywhere?: increasing the use of onion services through automatic redirects and aliasing

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#21952: .Onion everywhere?: increasing the use of onion services through automatic
redirects and aliasing
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 Reporter:  linda     |          Owner:  linda
     Type:  project   |         Status:  reopened
 Priority:  Medium    |      Milestone:
Component:  Webpages  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal    |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  ux-team   |  Actual Points:
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 Reviewer:            |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by alecmuffett):

 Great.  I posted a long and friendly explanation, and Trac swallowed it
 because it wanted email verification.

 So, here are the highlights of what you missed:

 1) https://github.com/chris-barry/darkweb-everywhere already exists.  it
 needs engineers.

 2) issuing AltSvc headers makes no sense unless the client is coming from
 an exit node, so if you want people to adopt that solution then you need
 to make it really cheap for sites to check if a client is an exit node

 3) nobody will issue AltSvc on every request because it's a bandwidth-
 waste for 99.99% of requests.

 4) facebook did not adopt the auto-upgrade idea because (1) worries about
 onion bandwidth (2) worries about user paranoia; both of these are now
 solvable.  source: me.

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