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Add optional tracking cookie eliminator coding
Qbittorrent 3.3.11, 3.3.12, 3.4 alpha Linux Ubuntu/Mint
The Problem Tracking and Beacon cookies formerly rarely seen when routinely torrenting files now are showing up more frequently. Those represent a potential risk to the torrent user giving up their raw Ipv4 location to the content police thugs and their shyster attorney groups who then target your ISP's security department to harass and extort that user.
The Solution Add a option to automatically eliminate any and all tracking, beacon cookies some slug, goon or site's shill plants on your system while torrenting files.
+1 Any privacy improvement should be taken into consideration. Some cookies have ridiculous expiration dates making them "permanent" if you dont' remove them by hand. More control and tools would be welcome.
Add a option to automatically eliminate any and all tracking
How? remove all cookies on shutdown? please elaborate.
I don't think he'll answer. I asked him something in another issue and he didn't see/ignore it subsequently making another (unrelated) issue.
"Add a option to automatically eliminate any and all tracking"
And I don't think it needs so much explanation.... Cookies the way are implemented right now are pretty much permanent if they ask so. Or they have unreasonable lifetime even when they become unused.
-Settings/bitorrent/privacy: New option (there is plenty of space at the right) Cookie cleaning -> Manual/automatic (on shutdown)
-Tools/manage cookies: New button (at bottom) Clean all
Done.
That's pretty much the minimum reasonable to manage cookies.
Following the user agent discussion I don't know if more fine control of cookies is allowed by private trackers (?).
For ex. some of them collect my system language or assign me an ID. Is it reasonable to obfuscate those values to whatever we want?
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