[tor-bugs] #6156 [TorBrowserButton]: Remove hit of check.tpo on 'new identity' in Tor Browser

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#6156: Remove hit of check.tpo on 'new identity' in Tor Browser
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 Reporter:  phobos            |          Owner:  mikeperry
     Type:  defect            |         Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal            |      Milestone:           
Component:  TorBrowserButton  |        Version:           
 Keywords:                    |         Parent:           
   Points:                    |   Actualpoints:           
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 Remove hit of check.tpo on 'new identity' in Tor Browser. Since this new
 feature went live a few weeks ago, the requests per second on check.tpo
 has doubled and shows no signs of abating. The server is increasingly
 busy. See
 https://munin.torproject.org/torproject.org/sergii.torproject.org/apache_accesses.html
 (use tor-guest username and anything for the password). The next time the
 server crashes, everyone will be sad, even more so than before.

 Option two is to remove check.tpo completely and have it done via the
 browser.

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