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Re: [tor-bugs] #25658 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Activity 2.1: Improve user understanding and user control by clarifying Tor Browser's security features
#25658: Activity 2.1: Improve user understanding and user control by clarifying Tor
Browser's security features
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Reporter: isabela | Owner: antonela
Type: project | Status: assigned
Priority: High | Milestone:
Component: Applications/Tor Browser | Version:
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: ux-team, TorBrowserTeam201810 | Actual Points:
Parent ID: | Points:
Reviewer: | Sponsor: Sponsor17
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Comment (by antonela):
> So, comment:33 proposes to reduce the slider from three options to two
*in general* and bind all the security features to the transport.
Not really. I think that having an ON/OFF option is more natural for users
to understand that having three options and we also can improve websites
performance by suggesting allow or not specific permissions. I also
believe that Tor Browser could be proactive on raising the security shield
if the user is visiting an untrustworthy site, which could or not be an
HTTP site but could be a site which has dangerous content. With this
scenario, Arthur's heuristics showed that seems like Design (2) will have
a better experience for users.
This feature should aim to protect users from trustworthy and
untrustworthy sites while having better performance with sites breakage.
If we don't improve site breakage on top security mode, then nobody uses
it.
That said, my idea about having our security protection feature at the
control center allows users to have a better understanding of how the
security tool behavior is. It is related to one of the problems we want to
solve with this ticket: users need visual feedback on which level of the
slider they are.
In my proposal, we still have three options at
`about:preferences#security` as detailed
[https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/attachment/ticket/25658/25658%20-%206.4.png/
here]. But the label/name of the options now is not more related to which
kind of security users think they need.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25658#comment:40>
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