Facebook is often criticized over secrecy concerns , but the societal meshing just made a historic move in the name of security and namelessness . The social networkjust created a dedicated Tor linkthat see citizenry who visit the web site from the anon. World Wide Web web browser wo n’t be false for botnets . This is a bounteous pile , mostly because it ’s Facebook .
Before I say anything else , this is the Tor address , and if you ’re a Tor user who also practice Facebook , you should commence using it immediately : https://facebookcorewwwi.onion/
As for the new Tor URL itself , the need was distinctly there . Over the class , Facebook has received loads of complaint from user who aver that the website does n’t work right in the Tor browser app . For example , fonts were all over the position , and ads were weird . Facebook , meanwhile , realizes that Tor ’s method of routing connexion through several information processing system for carry on the drug user ’ anonymity compromises some of the many crucial security measuresthe site has already implemented(e.g . HTTPS , Perfect Forward Security , HSTS , etc . ) . Namely , Facebook ’s security measures often think that users log into the web site through Tor are not actual human being but rather botnets adjudicate to cause worry .

This is reliable ! I just tested it out . I log into my dusty sure-enough Facebook visibility from Chrome and everything was normal . Then , with that Facebook tab still open , I fired up Tor and navigated to facebook.com , where I was greeted by the normal sign in silver screen . That ’s when things cause eldritch . Facebook immediately thought I ’d been hack on :
at the same time , the Facebook tab I had open in Chrome went dark . Facebook mechanically signalise me out . I did n’t even refresh the page , I was just kicked out . This is normal for a potential Facebook taxicab , but a little bit startling nevertheless .
So , in ordering to get into my invoice , I went through the motions which were sort of merriment :

And the , finally , I catch in . My home page looked normal enough , but when I navigated over to my Timeline , I find that it was indeed weird and burst - looking :
I do n’t actually mind the serif baptistry on my Facebook page . But the fact that it indicate there ’s something awry happening under the thug is in spades unsettling . So I try the new , Tor - specific URL . It work — sort of .
Facebook did make me lumber in again — which is a unspoiled affair — but this time it did n’t think I was a cyber-terrorist . My News Feed front and worked perfectly . But ! That damn serif font is still there on my Timeline . Again , it ’s not a huge mass , and this is a brand new production that Facebook will clear improve over time . But it ’s a step in the correct focussing for Facebook , for Tor , for anonymity , and for the net as a whole . full job , Zuck and company ! [ Facebook ]

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