[tor-bugs] #3341 [Vidalia]: Misleading text "Tor blocks some outgoing mail and file sharing applications by default to reduce spam and other abuse"

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#3341: Misleading text "Tor blocks some outgoing mail and file sharing
applications by default to reduce spam and other abuse"
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 Reporter:  arma     |          Owner:  chiiph
     Type:  defect   |         Status:  new   
 Priority:  normal   |      Milestone:        
Component:  Vidalia  |        Version:        
 Keywords:           |         Parent:        
   Points:           |   Actualpoints:        
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Comment(by chiiph):

 Replying to [comment:3 arma]:
 > Replying to [comment:2 chiiph]:
 > > So if we want to be accurate, we should say
 >
 > I think part of my realization here is that we don't want to be
 accurate. We want to lead the user to make a reasonable decision, while
 hiding as much of the detail as possible, without putting the user at risk
 by any of the detail we hide.

 Ok, I understand that, but it seems that by being vague we drive users to
 assume wrong things. I guess I'm just not that happy with the current
 model.

 I'm thinking that may be we should have an advance way of setting this
 (other users have complained about that), but have that disable by default
 and have a couple of presets, like:
 - Web (HTTP+HTTPS)
 - Secure Web (HTTPS)
 - Web and media (HTTP+HTTPS+Other)
 - Custom

 So the user will see exactly what is rejected and accepted in a grayed
 display under the preset list. And selecting Custom will enable the
 advance part.
 That way we are being kind of vague and the user has to click a lot to
 make it wrong, but he/she can see exactly what's going on.

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