[tor-bugs] #26146 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Setting `general.useragent.override` does not spoof the platform part anymore in ESR 60 which is confusing

Wed Jul 4 20:24:16 UTC 2018

#26146: Setting `general.useragent.override` does not spoof the platform part
anymore in ESR 60 which is confusing
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 Reporter:  gk                        |          Owner:  tbb-team
     Type:  defect                    |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                    |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                    |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  ff60-esr                  |  Actual Points:
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 Reviewer:                            |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by cypherpunks):

 By the way let's smash this type of thinking once and for all, "X can be
 found using Y anyway in Z circumstances, so let's expose X directly". Ok,
 Tor Browser can be identified using exit IP, fingerprint and other stuff,
 so let's expose that information directly, how about `Mozilla/5.0 (Windows
 NT 6.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 TorBrowser/8.0` as UA?

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