[tor-talk] Funding Tor Development trough Referral/Affiliate Marketing

[Nick Mathewson]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Moritz Bartl <moritz at torservers.net> wrote:
> On 01/10/2016 03:08 PM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists wrote:
>> I'm wondering if that couldn't be a very interesting model also for
>> TorBrowser, whereby the TorBrowser would automatically inject a referral
>> ID (in the HTTP header or URL parameters) [...]
>> That kind of model could be implemented with a custom plug-in within the
>> Tor Browser.
>
> My first reaction was that this is highly unethical.
>
> I can see this happening as a plugin and an option within the setup
> wizard to enable it (opt-in). It can probably be done similarly to the
> proof-of-concept HTTPS Everywhere ruleset
> https://github.com/chris-barry/darkweb-everywhere
>
> I still don't have a very good feeling about it.

Agreed.

-- 
Nick