[tor-bugs] #30939 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Use Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection as a means for performance improvements

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#30939: Use Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection as a means for performance
improvements
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 Reporter:  gk                        |          Owner:  tbb-team
     Type:  project                   |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                    |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                    |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tbb-performance, ux-team  |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by gk):

 To start the discussion here is how I currently think we could answer the
 above questions:

 a) No, we don't want to do that but rather we should make sure that ETP is
 only used and perceived as a performance improvement. That might mean
 getting ETP out of the privacy part of the preferences and changing the
 respective text if it is talking about privacy. I think we could keep all
 non-UI things, though, like the preferences governing this.

 b) I think we could start small e.g. by blocking all the cryptominers and
 see how that goes and add all the other bits successively if we are
 confident enough.

 c) Not sure. I think we need to audit the mechanism Mozilla needs for
 this. It is slightly different than the regular safebrowsing retrieval.

 d) Maybe, although I think it would be fine to use what Mozilla has to be
 able to start experimenting (That's dependent on the answer to c),
 though).

 e) I think we should not ship an ad blocker on top of that and use that
 mechanism as our blocking tool.

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