[tor-bugs] #21952 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Onion-location: increasing the use of onion services through automatic redirects and aliasing

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#21952: Onion-location: increasing the use of onion services through automatic
redirects and aliasing
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 Reporter:  linda                                |          Owner:  tbb-
                                                 |  team
     Type:  project                              |         Status:
                                                 |  assigned
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser             |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  ux-team, tor-hs, network-team-       |  Actual Points:
  roadmap-november, TorBrowserTeam201911,        |
  tbb-9.5                                        |
Parent ID:  #30024                               |         Points:  6
 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
                                                 |  Sponsor27-must
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Comment (by acat):

 Some progress in https://github.com/acatarineu/tor-browser/commit/21952
 (see 21952.webm attachment). I have used the "native" Firefox page actions
 for this, so you get similar behaviour as the other page actions: right
 click allows to hide from urlbar, the contextual menu can also be accessed
 via the three dots button, etc.

 In asn's
 [https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/asn/torspec.git/tree/proposals/ideas
 /onion-location.txt?h=onion-
 location&id=14fc750e3afcd759f4235ab955535a07eed24286 proposal] the auto-
 redirect option seems to be left for the future, but some conversations on
 IRC mentioned it, so I'm not sure about this. Do we want to offer the
 option of doing automatic redirects?

 For now I added a couple of options in the contextual menu: "visit .onion
 now" and "always use .onion when available". My idea is that the latter
 (not yet implemented) would be persisted and when enabled automatically
 redirect to the Onion-Location url. Assuming auto-redirect is ok to be
 implemented, one question I have is: should this automatic redirects pref
 be global (not per-site)?

 Something I miss is some visual feedback once the redirection to .onion
 (either "manual" or automatic) has occurred, so that it's possible to know
 that this has happened and which site we were redirected from, as well as
 exposing the option to disable automatic redirects. Perhaps have a (maybe
 slightly different to ".onion available") button in the urlbar that shows
 this info on click? Maybe to the left of the padlock, like Firefox
 tracking protection UI?

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