Hello,
as you might know, the IETF recently decided to formally recognize .onion names as special-use domain names [0].
This means that normal browsers like Chrome and Firefox can now handle onion domains in a special manner since they know that they only correspond to Tor.
How would we like those browsers to treat onions?
For starters, those browsers should refuse to connect to onion domains entirely. Onions don't work on normal browsers anyway, and also this will reduce the onion leakage through the DNS system [1].
An extra measure would be to persuade those browser vendors to display some sort of message to poor people who click onions using their normal browser. For example they could display:
Oops, seems like you visited an onion link. You need a special anonymous browser for this: www.torproject.org
What else could we do here? And is there anyone who can lobby for the right behavior? :)
Of course, we all know that that inevitably those browsers will need to bundle Tor, if they want to visit the actually secure onion Internet. But let's give them a bit more time till they realize this :)
Cheers!
[0]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/landmark-hidden-services-onion-names-reserv... https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7686.txt https://www.iana.org/assignments/special-use-domain-names/special-use-domain...