Re: [tor-bugs] #25658 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Activity 2.1: Improve user understanding and user control by clarifying Tor Browser's security features

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#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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