[tor-bugs] #18361 [Applications/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:  defect                               |         Status:
                                                 |  reopened
 Priority:  Very High                            |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser             |        Version:
 Severity:  Critical                             |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  surveillance, cloudflare, captcha,   |  Actual Points:
  censorship, mitm                               |
Parent ID:                                       |         Points:  1000
 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
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Changes (by cypherpunks):

 * keywords:   => surveillance, cloudflare, captcha, censorship, mitm


Comment:

 @jgrahamc: Are you here? The rate of denial of Tor users by CF's captcha
 provider has (by my observations) risen way above 90%. In fact even
 websites having nothig to vandalize, like flightradar24, are practically
 unreachable. It is obvious that the "code evolution" only cuts the slice
 of accepted Tor users smaller and smaller.

 Two years ago you wrote
 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:230:
 >We're actively looking into two things: fewer CAPTCHAs and a better
 CAPTCHA solution. The latter is >pretty hard because we need something
 that scales to our size, works internationally, actually does >what it
 says on the tin. We have made changes (with the help on Google) to reduce
 the complexity of >CAPTCHAs being seen by Tor users and continue to work
 on this."

 Today, we don't get any CAPTCHAs AT ALL. How is that any better? (for Tor
 users ;)

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:292>
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