[tor-bugs] #32256 [Applications/Tor Browser]: TorBrowser should advertise Onion Networking capability in the User-Agent: string

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Thu Oct 24 10:44:38 UTC 2019


#32256: TorBrowser should advertise Onion Networking capability in the User-Agent:
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 Reporter:  alecmuffett               |          Owner:  tbb-team
     Type:  enhancement               |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                    |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                    |     Resolution:
 Keywords:                            |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:                            |         Points:
 Reviewer:                            |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by alecmuffett):

 ps: take care with that 95% number, though; at scale more than 99% of
 people are just normal users doing normal things, so it can lead to
 reportage of the "TOR USERS ARE 5x WORSE THAN NORMAL" selective quoting.

 The point is: there's a **lot** of legitimate Tor usage which is invisible
 to site administrators, and their perception of Tor is skewed by
 investigations of "bad people" who arrive over Tor, leading to negative
 confirmation-bias.

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