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Tor Browser Bundle 8.0 (TBB) sends OS+kernel+TOTAL_PING_COUNT in update queries to Mozilla
- Tails 3.9, which ships with TBB 8.0, is also affected.
User report:[1]
https://blog.torproject.org/comment/277375#comment-277375Sanitize the add-on blocklist update URL
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/16931related, old, closed ticket (unresolved):
TBB-Firefox sends OS+kernel in update queries to Mozilla
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6734[1]: "TBB-Firefox sends Linux kernel version in extensions blocklist update queries to Mozilla. 6 years old ticket closed https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6734 without fix this privacy issue.
From Ubuntu 18.04.1 LiveCD
/v1/blocklist/3/%7Bec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384%7D/60.2.0/Firefox/20180204030101/Linux_x86_64-gcc3/en-US/release/Linux 4.15.0-29-generic (GTK 3.22.30 libpulse 11.1.0)/default/default/1/1/new/""about:config
extensions.blocklist.url""Also it send TOTAL_PING_COUNT to tell mozilla how many days you use TBB."
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday September 26 2018, @01:29AM (6 children)
Whooshing right back at you.
We kinda sorta noticed the pope's edict, in the same manner in which we noted that some politician claimed to be the inventor of the internets. And, that's almost the same notice taken of some blonde skank performing obscene stunts on stage in front of audiences of brainwashed zombies. None of those things had any meaning to the average person - it was just something to laugh at, or not.
(Score: 0, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 26 2018, @01:46AM (5 children)
You're taking the mention of a pope too seriously here.
Simplified for you:
Don't like modern technology (the web)? Why don't you go back in time to when the technology didn't exist (1990) and while you're there go see some event that happened (concert tour). Except a conservative person who prefers the past might not like something that happened (concert scandal) back then either.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday September 26 2018, @04:59AM (2 children)
So we have a bit of drama in 1990 (ignoring that I wasn't listening to Madonna, the Pope, or TV at the time). What would be any different about the drama today? I don't see it playing out any different. Madonna still gives the concert with increased publicity. The Pope gets his say. And we still hear about it through the various news sources out there.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @02:42AM (1 child)
Tor Browser sends update queries to Mozilla because things expect always on connectivity, khallow.
Things today expect always on connectivity, khallow.
We have always on connectivity today because of the internet, khallow.
We have the internet everywhere today because the web made the internet popular, khallow.
The World Wide Web didn't exist in 1990, khallow.
Get in your time machine and go back to 1990 and kill yourself, khallow.
The future doesn't want you, khallow.
Fuck off and die, khallow.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday September 28 2018, @04:30AM
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday September 26 2018, @06:24AM
So you think wanting privacy is something inherently conservative?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 26 2018, @04:55PM
Is there some magic reason why the phoning home functions can not be turned off? Are users no longer capable of making decisions for themselves?