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Don't open webtorrent in tor windows #1134
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Changing this issue to reflect that webtorrent should not be enabled for Tor at all |
Marking this as a release blocker since torrents are a leak and this would be a regression from browser-laptop. Looks like @yrliou is on top of it, will take a look when the PR is ready. |
QA note: See brave/brave-core#554 for the test plan. |
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@yrliou when there's no applications associated with Here's an example of what we did with browser-laptop (muon): Thoughts? |
What happens when you click a link which has no handler installed in general? |
Using the BitTorrent protocol over Tor results in poor performance and poor privacy. When using Tor,
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files should not be opened with webtorrent — instead, they should just be downloaded like any other file. Magnet links should result in a privacy warning. If the user choses to proceed, they could either be opened in-browser or in a desktop client. To reduce linkability, perhaps, Magnet links should be added to webtorrent but not opened until a short while after the Tor session endsThe text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: