[tor-talk] How do tor users get past the recapacha and it's super short 2min exemption

[Roger Dingledine]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 06:44:26PM -0700, Mirimir wrote:
>  For example, how did Facebook come around to have an
> onion? Was it just that Alec Muffett championed it? Did complaints from
> excluded users play a role? Positive or negative?

They did some internal measurements and realized that the number of
people connecting to Facebook over Tor was growing and had become huge:
https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-over-tor/1-million-people-use-facebook-over-tor/865624066877648/

To put that into context, that means something like 1 out of every 1000
Facebook users connected to Facebook over Tor in the month of April 2016.

And see also "part one" of
https://blog.torproject.org/facebook-hidden-services-and-https-certs

So yes, they needed an internal champion to get them to do the
measurements, but after that the measurements spoke for themselves.

--Roger