[tbb-bugs] #18361 [Tor Browser]: Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance

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#18361: Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance
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 Reporter:  ioerror                       |          Owner:  tbb-team
     Type:  enhancement                   |         Status:  new
 Priority:  High                          |      Milestone:
Component:  Tor Browser                   |        Version:
 Severity:  Critical                      |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  security, privacy, anonymity  |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by jgrahamc):

 Replying to [comment:84 kbaegis]:
 > Finally, I'd invite you to revisit the key point here, which is that
 your product line makes Tor unusable by many users who still want to
 browse the web anonymously.  I understand that your company has a goal.
 In this specific context, the business goals are causing a legitimate harm
 to web users and this is something that I suggest you revisit more broadly
 within your organization.  Surely CloudFlare has technical expertise that
 extends beyond "Let's fix that with captcha" and there are probably (from
 an engineering perspective) better ways to solve both the problems of DDoS
 and spam than authenticating every single session.

 I agree with this. I've kicked off an internal discussion of the best way
 to deal with the abuse coming from Tor (and elsewhere) that doesn't
 involve CAPTCHAs. We'll continue with the other things listed above as I
 want to have some immediate impact on this while in parallel looking for
 better solutions.

 > I'll wrap up with a question.  ''How'' are you intending on rolling out
 this new feature?  Is it going to be opt-in, opt-out, will there be an
 email sent to your customers about using it?  I think that this is
 something that the community is greatly interested in.

 Almost everything we announce goes on our blog so I imagine we'll do it
 that way. It gets emailed to people who subscribe to the blog. I don't
 know if it'll be emailed to all customers (mostly because we don't tend to
 send them a lot of email and it's the marketing group that decides). The
 current plan is for this to be opt-in.

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