Facebook announced that more than 1 million users accessed the social network via Tor during the past 30 days.
Facebook launched its onion URL for Tor in October 2014, and it added support for the Orbot proxy application for Android devices in January.
Software engineer for security infrastructure Alec Muffett said in a note on the Facebook Over Tor page Friday:
People who choose to communicate over Tor do so for a variety of reasons related to privacy, security and safety. As we’ve written previously, it’s important to us to provide methods for people to use our services securely–particularly if they lack reliable methods to do so.
This is why in the past two years we built the Facebook onion site and onion mobile site; helped standardize the “.onion” domain name; and implemented Tor connectivity for our Android mobile app by enabling connections through Orbot.
Over this period, the number of people who access Facebook over Tor has increased. In June 2015, over a typical 30 day period, about 525,000 people would access Facebook over Tor–e.g.: by using Tor Browser to access www.facebook.com or the Facebook onion site, or by using Orbot on Android. This number has grown–roughly linearly–and this month, for the first time, we saw this “30 day” figure exceed 1 million people.
Readers: Have you ever accessed Facebook via Tor?
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