There are countries where people go to jail over Facebook or Twitter comments and even just using it could be triggering some arcane investigation against you.

Also Iran (likely others) did try to inject tracking JS in plain HTTP and they got the ability for a while to have valid certs so HTTPS is not really helping if you are not really paranoid with certs and hashes that is really difficult to archive.

Once you got Tor running and connect to an onion you have quite a few guarantees that are hard to circumvent/spy on for a government.

> by that I mean you think people are planning terrorist plots over facebook? come on.

It sure has likely happened. Due to Facebook only access (internet.org) for a lot of the world using mobile and Facebook is the only access to internet that is affordable. Online shopping is also handled over Facebook in these countries.

While Facebook shares your data with courts it has no way of knowing who you are if you are using Tor. At least it can't forward your location to the local secret service to beat you up. A somewhat qualified court request from a western country is also something different than arbitrary repression from dictatorships.

This is a very good comment that answers my question. Would you move up a layer: why would (why do) these countries allow any citizen to run tor without a visit from the (not so) secret police?

They don't allow it but it tries hard to look like regular SSL then there is stuff like obfsproxy that helps to hide Tor furthermore.

FB probably supports TOR for those who wish to use Facebook against the policy of their countries government or to gain more possible privacy from said governments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Facebook

If you expect facebook to leak everything they know about you then connecting through tor allows them to know one less thing about you (the location you used to visit facebook).

Actually you share one more, important, datum: This user uses Tor. Likely uses Tor for other, possible nefarious, purposes too. Likely has a high X_keyscore.

Your real profile and location can be inferred from your browsing habbits and friend's data.

Unfortunately, with the current size of Facebook, even "not having an active Facebook account" shares data, especially when you are in an age category where all your peers do have profiles. It's a negative signal to recruiters and employers ("must have something to hide...").

> It's a negative signal to recruiters and employers ("must have something to hide...").

Fuck them. Is this the line of thinking you want to align your live to?

We need to work together to stop that from happening. In the end the best fake profile win's and it's a competition in hiding your sins. Medieval ages called and complained that you used them to compare to this mess.

Every second/third? totally fine, everything perfect guy has some unhealthy addiction but the guy who uses Tor for playing around or ordering drugs is suspicious? It's laughable. You only get some collections of narcissists and psychopaths as employees that still do occasionally harm to your company and use drugs like everyone else.

What the fuck is going on. It's 2016 and I'm feeling like 1516.

sure, but people usually obscure their location by using a vpn, not going through the hassle of going through tor.

So what I've written:

>so I find the mashup of tor with facebook to be kind of bizarre.

is even more so if anyone's reason is "I really, really, don't want facebook to know where I am!" I mean I just don't get it. Especially to the tune of 1 million people.

What is the hassle of using tor? You have to download, configure, and run some software, just like you'd have to to connect to a vpn, but you don't have to, yanno, set up a vpn... You also don't have to rely on the integrity of a single proxy.