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Twitter's onion service is serving an invalid TLS certificate since 3/6/2023

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Re: Twitter's onion service is serving an invalid TLS certificate since 3/6/2023

#2
I don't understand the premise of Twitter having an .onion hidden service. They're anti-anonymity, at least from my experience, where they extorted my phone number from me so I could continue to use their service. Mixing PII with Tor defeats the purpose of anonymity. You're immediately outed by providing a phone number or even en e-mail.

Re: Twitter's onion service is serving an invalid TLS certificate since 3/6/2023

#3

I don't understand the premise of Twitter having an .onion hidden service. They're anti-anonymity, at least from my experience, where they extorted my phone number from me so I could continue to use their service. Mixing PII with Tor defeats the purpose of anonymity. You're immediately outed by providing a phone number or even en e-mail.

Accessing Twitter from countries that don't have any way to force Twitter to divulge information is the purpose.

Re: Twitter's onion service is serving an invalid TLS certificate since 3/6/2023

#4

I don't understand the premise of Twitter having an .onion hidden service. They're anti-anonymity, at least from my experience, where they extorted my phone number from me so I could continue to use their service. Mixing PII with Tor defeats the purpose of anonymity. You're immediately outed by providing a phone number or even en e-mail.

I think it’s intended to circumvent government blocks in times of unrest to ensure communication

Re: Twitter's onion service is serving an invalid TLS certificate since 3/6/2023

#5

I don't understand the premise of Twitter having an .onion hidden service. They're anti-anonymity, at least from my experience, where they extorted my phone number from me so I could continue to use their service. Mixing PII with Tor defeats the purpose of anonymity. You're immediately outed by providing a phone number or even en e-mail.

This goes for every single website on clearnet though?

If not phone number, they have your IP and location, timezone, likely waking hours, private chats, search queries, who you communicate with and when etc. If not collected by the webmaster then it is automatically collected by whatever government the server sits in (+ whatever governments that government trades data with).

The times of anonymity on the internet/clearnet are long gone.

Re: Twitter's onion service is serving an invalid TLS certificate since 3/6/2023

#10

I don't understand the premise of Twitter having an .onion hidden service. They're anti-anonymity, at least from my experience, where they extorted my phone number from me so I could continue to use their service. Mixing PII with Tor defeats the purpose of anonymity. You're immediately outed by providing a phone number or even en e-mail.

I think it’s intended to circumvent government blocks in times of unrest to ensure communication

Just a heads-up, it looks like your account might have been shadowbanned? You last few comments were all dead, as well as this one when I first saw it. Looks like someone else may have already vouched for it though.
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