Remove Torbutton from addons.mozilla.org
Currently, Torbutton is available from addons.mozilla.org. This listing must be removed for several reasons:
- Nothing currently shown on the page indicates that users must download, install, and run Tor in order to use Torbutton. Multiple people have been confused by this fact.
- According to Mozilla's privacy policy (currently last updated June 30, 2010), addons.mozilla.org records in its logs client IP addresses and times of accesses to the site. Mozilla does not consider even IP addresses to be personally identifying information, and states that it may share the logs it collects with 'employees, contractors, service providers, and subsidiaries and related organizations'. They do not state how long these logs are preserved, or in which jurisdictions the people and organizations with access to the logs are located.
- The description of Torbutton is long out of date (e.g. it links to bugs.tpo/flyspray for bug reports). I assume this means that we cannot update the description without significant effort.
Once the a.m.o listing is removed, we should announce the change and explain the reasons for it in a blog post.