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It's probably a government request. But let's give them benefit of doubt. My guess is that there's a business reason behind it. Probably they want to track you.
kind of pointless using Tor to access a site that has all your personal information on it.
What personal information exists in facebook?
The whole point of Facebook is to share some private information with a selected group of friends.
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The article simply states the issue. Its not up to the writer to come up with excuses for facebook, which if you are really hot on bad journalists you would rightly write off a mere speculation. Its up to facebook to explain their position. If their excuse turns out to be a reasonable reason, then lets hear it.
It's up to the journalist to investigate and find out why Facebook is doing this so he can write a more complete story.
Google, IIRC, does not let you search from TOR either. If they can't track you, you're no good to them.
So you are told that the IP you are using is rate limited.
this means that facebook do not care about the fat of its users, as now thousands of activists in tyrant regimes might risk their identities be found and that means they will go to jail.
Facebook is supposed to be a site where you use your real identity and therefore seems like a bad choice for activists trying to keep their identity hidden. Twitter seems like a better solution which is still mainstream and the public nature of it makes it easier to communicate with the outside world.
Why the hell would someone using TOR use Facebook?
Did you not even finish reading the headline?
Has anybody tried asking Facebook why they've done this? Possible reasons: 1. One or more governments (which ones?) have told Facebook to block Tor or else. (Or else what?) 2. A manual security review revealed more hacking attempts via Tor than legitimate use, so Facebook decided to block Tor. 3. After a sustained hacking attack via Tor, an automated Facebook security system automatically blocked Facebook access from…
The article simply states the issue. Its not up to the writer to come up with excuses for facebook, which if you are really hot on bad journalists you would rightly write off a mere speculation. Its up to facebook to explain their position. If their excuse turns out to be a reasonable reason, then lets hear it.
Uh, yeah. That's why the parent comment suggests asking Facebook what's going on NOT guessing about it!
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True, sorta. In my past experiences, if you're on tor (or proxy'd through a known portal), and have Javascript disabled entirely, Google will sometimes (not always) give you an error stating that your IP is a known abuser. If you DO have JS enabled, I have encountered the "Your IP is known to be abusive, so type in this captcha in order to continue" and then it forwards to encrypted.google.com. I get similiar behavio…
I never realized that turning on/off noscript had something to do with google blocking me, thanks.