[HTTPS-Everywhere] Google Searches

[Peter Eckersley]

I've tried to switch country-specific search users back to their cctld google
sites with this commit:

https://gitweb.torproject.org/https-everywhere.git/commitdiff/331ab2aa740e29ef88c59ab513c2add91361031f

This is a fairly significant change, it could probably benefit from a review
or two before we test it in the wild.  It seems tow work for me, but I haven't
tested all the combinations of logged in|logged out, US|geolocated elsewhere.
I also haven't tested its interactions with the things in all of the other
Google rulesets.


On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 08:30:18AM +0000, Nick Cross wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> The halfway point seems like a reasonable solution. The additional
> functionality on country specific sites seems to be the issue and I
> guess until Google provides encrypted.google.[co.uk] then using
> https://www.google.co.uk may be the only option
> 
> Currently I have aded my own rule and disable the built in google
> search rule - this seems to work fine.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Nick
> 
> 
> On 25/02/12 00:06, Peter Eckersley wrote:
> >I'm wavering on the encrypted.google.com / www.google.com issue.
> >
> >Another thing that is pushing me is this:
> >
> >https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5152
> >
> >One halfway point might be to use the native non-US cctld sites when the user
> >types them or is redirected there, but stick with encrypted.google.com for US
> >users.
> >
> >On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:16:37PM +0000, Nick Cross wrote:
> >>
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I know the search uses encrypted.google.com which according to the
> >>FAQ supplies slightly better security.
> >>
> >>However, if I use http://www.google.com or https://www.google.com it
> >>reroutes me to the country specific site of http://www.google.co.uk
> >>or https://www.google.co.uk and most importantly I get the option to
> >>"show pages from the uk" which I find invaluable when searching.
> >>
> >>I understand you will not change httpseverywhere to use
> >>https://www.google.[co.uk|com] instead of encrypted.google.com but
> >>could you perhaps consider making it configurable?
> >>
> >>Currently my wife just turns off httpseverywhere just to get
> >>searches working correctly!
> >>
> >>Do custom rules overrule the built in rules?
> >>
> >>Thanks!
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> 

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