Re: [tor-talk] Tor check not working or recognize TBB?

2018-07-02 Thread Nicolas Vigier
On Mon, 02 Jul 2018, Tortilla wrote: > > > On Mon, July 2, 2018 5:47 am, john doe wrote: > > On 7/1/2018 11:22 PM, Joe wrote: > >> Yesterday, updated TBB (automatically) to 7.5.6 Linux x64. > >> Today, the default Tor check site (English language), > >> https://check.torproject.org gave message:

[tor-talk] New Report: The State of Internet Censorship in Egypt

2018-07-02 Thread Maria Xynou
Hello, Today OONI and Egypt's AFTE published a joint research report on the state of internet censorship in Egypt. * Full report in English: https://ooni.io/documents/Egypt-Internet-Censorship-AFTE-OONI-2018-07.pdf * Full report in Arabic: https://ooni.io/documents/Egypt-Internet-Censorship-AFTE

Re: [tor-talk] Tor check not working or recognize TBB?

2018-07-02 Thread john doe
On 7/2/2018 7:47 AM, john doe wrote: On 7/1/2018 11:22 PM, Joe wrote: Yesterday, updated TBB (automatically) to 7.5.6 Linux x64. Today, the default Tor check site (English language), https://check.torproject.org gave message: "Congratulations. This browser is configured to use Tor. Your IP ad

Re: [tor-talk] Tor check not working or recognize TBB?

2018-07-02 Thread Tortilla
You only replied to me, so I'm re-involving the list. re: point (B) check.torproject.org doesn't look at your browser's configuration settings - it can't inspect that kind of thing. It's just looking at the user agent string your browser sends *as a result of* how that setting is set. How it got

Re: [tor-talk] Tor check not working or recognize TBB?

2018-07-02 Thread Joe
Thanks Tortilla. I don't see how your reply answers the question - maybe it wasn't intended to. It appears if the general.useragent.override string isn't the same as what ever / where ever check.torproject.org stores as a valid useragent.override value, it reports that you're not using TBB at a