[tor-bugs] #24527 [Applications/Tor Launcher]: Inform users in Tor Launcher of which settings are best for them based on their country

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#24527: Inform users in Tor Launcher of which settings are best for them based on
their country
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 Reporter:  hellais                    |          Owner:  brade
     Type:  enhancement                |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                     |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Launcher  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                     |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  ux-team                    |  Actual Points:
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 Reviewer:                             |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by cypherpunks):

 The degree of censorship often varies more within a country between
 networks than between countries. Consider the typical user (many/most
 censored Tor users) on a restrictive surveilled network but in a country
 without filtering at the tier 1 Internet backbone level. If Tor Launcher
 tells them Tor works fine for them without bridges that is a false
 statement, and if it auto-selects vanilla Tor with no bridges that is
 unhelpful and useless at best.

 Or someone could be in a country with national DPI but using a network
 whose route to the Internet is already tunneled through the DPI.

 If there's a place to tell users in for example China that Tor is unlikely
 to work in their country, maybe on the download page? But it isn't a
 dynamic page.

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