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298 points ColinWright | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 09:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.354s | source
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basedrum ◴[31 Mar 25 12:54 UTC] No.43534479[source]▶
Why does Tor Browser get grade C when it only has green thumbs up?
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Vinnl ◴[31 Mar 25 13:49 UTC] No.43535046[source]▶
Just checked with the team (I used to be involved), and apparently the reason is that Tor's policy is too short for the algorithm that turns policy annotations into a grade.

(This also kickstarted a discussion that maybe that warrants a change to the algorithm, so maybe later more.)

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1. garyrob ◴[31 Mar 25 13:59 UTC] No.43535158[source]▶
I propose that it should use a Baysian prior where the background knowledge is assumed to be an A.

While it may be true that most ToS are onerous, suppose we look at a ToS document as a collection of terms of service. It's only the terms of service that cause a removal of rights that would otherwise be assumed. The more terms there are, and the more onerous each one is, the more rights can be removed. But before there are any terms, no rights are removed, so that situation should be an A. Diminished from there, depending on how many terms there are, and each one's onerousness.