I havent followed this much, so Im confused. Did they have a purported reason for removing spoofing, or is it just undeniably blatant corruption?
Personally, I think Tor development has been compromised since the Jacob Appelbaum stuff
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The Tor project gave several reasons for the change, but the most important detail is probably that even without this change, passive methods have always existed to determine the platform. In other words, even when platform spoofing in HTTP headers was still implemented, and even when Javascript was disabled, it is still possible to determine what operating system a person was using.
In other words, the only effects of OS spoofing in HTTP headers was creating problems for user experience and providing a false sense of OS anonymity.
Do you happen to know roughly how it's possible to determine the OS?