[tor-bugs] #32602 [Community/Translations]: Consider what to do about locales used by very few people

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#32602: Consider what to do about locales used by very few people
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 Reporter:  emmapeel                             |          Owner:
                                                 |  emmapeel
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:
Component:  Community/Translations               |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tbb-fingerprinting-locale, l10n,     |  Actual Points:
  fingerprinting                                 |
Parent ID:                                       |         Points:
 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
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Description changed by emmapeel:

Old description:

> We give users an option to hide their locale and say they are using en-US
> as to decrease their fingerprint, but once in a while we can see some
> information may be leaked (ref:
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=!closed&keywords
> =~tbb-fingerprinting-locale).
>
> I wonder if we should let users know about this?
>
> Looking at the stats, specially the smaller numbers in Update pings at
>
> https://metrics.torproject.org/webstats-tb-locale.csv
>
> I wonder if maybe we should make users aware somehow about this? For
> example when in the download page:
>
> warning: you are using a locale used by very few people and there are a
> couple of ways in which your locale may be leaked.
>
> it sounds awful for a new translation to be published and get that,
> though :S

New description:

 We give users an option to hide their locale and say they are using en-US
 as to decrease their fingerprint, but once in a while we can see some
 information may be leaked (ref:
 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=!closed&keywords
 =~tbb-fingerprinting-locale).

 I wonder if we should let users know about this?

 Looking at the stats, specially the smaller numbers in Update pings at

 https://metrics.torproject.org/webstats-tb-locale.csv

 I wonder if maybe we should make users aware somehow about this? For
 example when in the download page:

 warning: you are using a locale used by very few people and there are a
 couple of ways in which your locale may be leaked.

 maybe we should also add a note about 'how do we know about this', maybe
 linking to the metrics page:

 https://metrics.torproject.org/webstats-tb-locale.html

 it sounds awful for a new translation to be published and get that, though
 :S

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