[tor-bugs] #31875 [Circumvention/BridgeDB]: BridgeDB should consider a user's location

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#31875: BridgeDB should consider a user's location
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     Reporter:  phw                     |      Owner:  (none)
         Type:  task                    |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium                  |  Milestone:
    Component:  Circumvention/BridgeDB  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal                  |   Keywords:  s30-o23a4
Actual Points:                          |  Parent ID:  #31280
       Points:  10                      |   Reviewer:
      Sponsor:  Sponsor30-must          |
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 bridges.torproject.org knows the user's physical location and should
 consider it when returning bridges. For example, if somebody in country X
 asks for an obfsN bridge but BridgeDB knows that only obfsN+1 works in X
 (e.g., by consulting the result of #28531), it should return obfsN+1.

 Ideally, we would do this for all of BridgeDB's distribution mechanisms.
 We could also do it for email – if the user emailed
 bridges+CC at bridges.torproject.org. As I understand it, we cannot do it for
 moat because BridgeDB doesn't get to see the user's IP address in this
 case.

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