[tor-bugs] #31222 [Circumvention/Snowflake]: Remove/or Improve Tor Browser detection in snowflake.js

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#31222: Remove/or Improve Tor Browser detection in snowflake.js
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 Reporter:  cypherpunks              |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect                   |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                   |      Milestone:
Component:  Circumvention/Snowflake  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                   |     Resolution:
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Comment (by cohosh):

 We had a discussion about this at the meeting last week. I think the
 decision was to remove this code since it doesn't work as intended anyway.

 There was also a discussion just now in #tor about this that brought up
 several points:
 - I'm not sure whether Tor Browser is built with webRTC support (see
 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25483#comment:49). I just
 tried adding the addon to Tor Browser and got the message
 {{{
 Snowflake is off

 WebRTC feature is not detected.
 }}}
  even though `media.peerconnection.enabled` is set to `true` in
 about:config

 - People seem to be concerned about the safety issues with running WebRTC
 in Tor Browser. Do we have a good understanding of this?

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