[tor-bugs] #29454 [HTTPS Everywhere/EFF-HTTPS Everywhere]: Updates of HTTPS-Everywhere we ship do not seem to update the rulesets

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#29454: Updates of HTTPS-Everywhere we ship do not seem to update the rulesets
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 Reporter:  gk                                   |          Owner:  legind
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:
                                                 |  needs_information
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:
Component:  HTTPS Everywhere/EFF-HTTPS           |        Version:
  Everywhere                                     |
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
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Comment (by legind):

 > Yes, but lying in the sense that the date is wrong as in the bug report.
 The user opened an old Tor Browser, updated and was confused that the *old
 date* was still shown in the display suggesting that the rules from that
 date were used while the update brought a new HTTPS-Everywhere version
 with the new rules. I think the expected behavior would be: show the date
 of applied rulesets either those that got downloaded (as is the case now)
 OR those that we got by a new HTTPS Everywhere version (which is not
 happening right now). The request on start-up might not get through for
 whatever reason...

 To avoid the problem of old rulesets still applying even when a new
 extension version is released, the simplest thing to do is probably to
 just clear the out-of-band rulesets from storage upon first load of any
 new version.  This will ensure that the extension-bundled rulesets are
 used upon each extension upgrade.  How does this sound?

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