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Re:Tor Browser 6.0 is released by nitrogen on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @05:13PM (#11810297)
How such a mechanism was ever acceptable is beyond me.

They probably wanted to encourage the new owner to use TLS as well.

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Re:Tor Browser 6.0 is released by developer2 on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @08:02PM (#11811235)
That makes little sense. Far more likely they just didn't take into account the fact that not every domain is a long-term "google.com" owned by a single entity for its lifetime.
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