Tor Browser ended OS "spoofing"
The new update stops lying that your operating system was Windows, when it's really Linux.
Ultimately to sum up their move in a single sentence,
They are trying to avoid bots hazing users for clearweb use, at the expense of no-JS darknet buyers.
IF you had Javascript ENABLED, then websites could have figured it out before. So this is NOT a big change. Because as I've been shouting from the rooftops, user-agent spoofing doesn't fool sophisticated scripts. And if you don't believe me, then Privacy-net has an analyzer to quickly prove OS spoofing doesn't work to you.
Going forward, IF you DISABLE Javascript, then darknet sites will now be able to see you're on Linux. This is probably not that big a deal, but a minor point. As it reduces your anonymity set, but among Windows, Mac, and Linux.
The official Tor team said quote:
"Asymmetric user agent spoofing triggered anti-fraud and bot-detection scripts breaking websites without added privacy benefits"
In the end though,
"Anti-Fraud and Bot-detection scripts" are STILL going to give Tor Browser users a hard-time, since their IP address is known to be Tor, and they are blocking all kinds of other scripts in safer mode. But it shows the official team is slightly less interested in protecting darknet buyers.
All of these anti-bot anti-fraud reasons are exactly what our fingerprint VPN system is designed to help you evade. Once again, I'm repeating that Tor Browser is a crappy daily driver for most services where you login. If it's just looking at text, okay. But if you're signing up, logging in, and using Javascript, then that's where Simplified Privacy's app shines. In hopefully under 2 weeks, we'll be doing a big upgrade fixing many things. Stay tuned.
