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Add optional tracking cookie eliminator coding #6637

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ASmith- opened this issue Apr 15, 2017 · 6 comments
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Add optional tracking cookie eliminator coding #6637

ASmith- opened this issue Apr 15, 2017 · 6 comments

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@ASmith-
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ASmith- commented Apr 15, 2017

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.

@ghost
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ghost commented Apr 17, 2017

+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.

@Chocobo1
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Add a option to automatically eliminate any and all tracking

How? remove all cookies on shutdown? please elaborate.

@thalieht
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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.

@ghost
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ghost commented Apr 23, 2017

"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.

@ghost
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ghost commented Apr 23, 2017

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?

@thalieht thalieht added the Security Related to software vulnerability in qbt (don't overuse this) label Sep 5, 2019
@Chocobo1 Chocobo1 added Feature request and removed Security Related to software vulnerability in qbt (don't overuse this) labels Apr 30, 2020
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luzpaz commented Aug 21, 2024

Related to #6405

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