Opened 4 years ago
Closed 4 years ago
#17498 closed defect (not a bug)
Torbutton refererSpoof seems broken
Reported by: | yupyup | Owned by: | tbb-team |
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Priority: | Medium | Milestone: | |
Component: | Applications/Tor Browser | Version: | |
Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Actual Points: | ||
Parent ID: | Points: | ||
Reviewer: | Sponsor: |
Description
Trying extensions.torbutton.refererspoof setting of 0, 1, and 2 all give the same response: no referrer sent.
The same happens even when network.http.referer.spoofSource is set to true.
Torbrowser version 5.0.3. Tested on HTTPS site.
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Change History (3)
comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by
Component: | Torbutton → Tor Browser |
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Owner: | set to tbb-team |
comment:3 Changed 4 years ago by
Resolution: | → not a bug |
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Status: | new → closed |
We don't spoof Referers anymore (see: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#deprecate section 1). Leaving .onion domains being the exception starting with Tor Browser 5.0.4/5.5a4/5.5a4-hardened.
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I used this site to test referrer:
https://www.whatismyreferer.com/
https://anonymous-proxy-servers.net/en/help/security_test.html