Setting TOR_TRANSPROXY=0 is the same as TOR_TRANSPROXY=1
It looks like the torbutton code that is using the TOR_TRANSPROXY environment variable is only checking if the variable exists, without looking at its content. So setting the environment variable to 0 or empty still enables it, which can be confusing.
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