Another captured nonprofit? It was implemented originally by the US government for agents and reporters (also agents) in other countries. Why allow OS identification, well Linux users make up 5% of computer users, and most privacy, anonymity users are using Linux, especially using the Darknet, so valuable fingerprinting information. And it must be of significant value to have the project behave in this way to try and cover for it.
Consequently, I disabled Tor nodes from the Netherlands and Germany in my Tor implementations, and my Tor bridge is getting hammered by compression bomb attempts today, which the software takes care of on its own. There are definitely attacks going on with the Tor network to identify users, and when using standard guards (entry) nodes I was seeing delays for what appeared to be possible timing attacks which went away when I fired up this Tor bridge to use exclusively. Which all begs the question, what hidden services are they going after? And I don’t think the Darknet drug markets warrant this type of effort or power play within the Tor Project, so it’s got to be independent reporters or whistleblowers who could impact large financial OCGFC projects.