Why did Tor browser do away with the perfer .onion over clearnet switch?

From New Release: Tor Browser 13.0.12 | The Tor Project

Removal of automatic .onion site prioritization

The Tor Project has recently been notified of a potential fingerprinting vulnerability with automatic Onion-Location redirects. In an abundance of caution, we have removed the ‘prioritize .onion sites when known’ option from Tor Browser. We are looking further into this issue and will provide timely updates as more research and additional recommendations become available.

Bug seems to be confidential…

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