Hi,
MrGorbachevteardownthiswall@??? wrote (15 Jan 2015 19:28:49 GMT) :
> https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2015-January/007821.html
> "let's remove AdBlock in our next major release"
> Please don't. If the user(s) wish to remove it per session that's their prerogative,
> but don't remove it for us all. It is a very useful plug-in.
> "but it might also be the case that very few people complain."
OK, we now have one first complaint. Thanks. The plan is precisely to
see how many there are.
Note that we won't take active steps to prevent users from installing
this add-on, if they're fine with dealing with the consequences themselves.
> The minority use mailing lists, so you probably won't hear the complaints from the
> majority, they're lucky if they find the Tor Blog, the related Reddit sub(s), and
> tor@stackexchange.
Our official support channels [1] are used intensively. I expect we'll
receive most complaints similar to yours via WhisperBack, which
doesn't involve using mailing-lists. So I'm not worried about users
lacking ways to tell us what's on their mind :)
[1]
https://tails.boum.org/support/
> Removing ABP is a stupid idea - like previous talk in the past of
> installing the popcon package. I'm delighted that never happened.
> If you want to start removing things, begin with files which have no
> business in this distro, like:
FYI we're not meaning to remove AdBlock Plus to "unbloat" the distro,
but to get a web fingerprint that's closer to the Tor Browser's one,
and thus stronger anonymity / protection against linkability.
Cheers,
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