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@@ -57,6 +57,21 @@ available as an onion service. ## Configuration +### Preventing user identification by languages + +APT sents no directly user identifying data to a server, but the server (and +any observer between you and the server) can guess based on the languages apt +downloads data for which languages the user might speak and from that infere +culture and/or origin country of the user. With a particular uncommon set it +might even be possible to identify a user. + +The most obvious solution might be to configure apt to not download data for +any language (or only for english) via the Acquire::Languages option, but this +is unacceptable if e.g. some or all users do not understand english. The option +can also be used to add or remove certain languages to the list. The download +of Translation files (which include the long descriptions for packages) can also +be configured for individual sources via sources.list options. + ### Using a different Tor instance By default, apt-transport-tor uses the following SOCKS proxy setting, which |