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Re:1M People Use Facebook Over Tor by c22 on Friday April 22, 2016 @01:51PM (#11551013)
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).
Re:1M People Use Facebook Over Tor by putasidemobile on Friday April 22, 2016 @04:35PM (#11552385)
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...").

Re:1M People Use Facebook Over Tor by nisa on Friday April 22, 2016 @06:23PM (#11552956)
> 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.

Re:1M People Use Facebook Over Tor by logicallee on Friday April 22, 2016 @01:58PM (#11551083)
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.

Re:1M People Use Facebook Over Tor by c22 on Friday April 22, 2016 @04:07PM (#11552223)
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.