[tor-talk] Does Facebook Onion Work?

Pickfire pickfire at riseup.net
Thu Feb 18 10:19:37 UTC 2016


On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 11:17:43PM +0000, Alec Muffett wrote:
>I just wanted to confirm that facebookcorewwwi is working and is under active development; we are currently working on scaling bandwidth so that we can support more people who want to use Facebook over Tor.
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>The facebookcorewwwi URLs use (and need) subdomains which are respected by web browsers, albeit that they are invisible to the Tor protocol.
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>The URLs are as follows:
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>  https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion/
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>  https://m.facebookcorewwwi.onion/
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>...the latter URL ("M-site") is a web-version of Facebook designed for mobile devices, which uses Javascript and yet can *also* be used without Javascript being available at all.
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>When an issue (potential bug?) is raised with us, we generally attempt to reproduce it. Our rule-of-thumb is to try reproducing the issue on a recent (ideally latest) version of TorBrowser, without extra extensions, and with the TBB "Security Level" set between Low/Medium-High (for www) or between Low/High (for m-site).
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>So far I have only managed to reproduce the "looping" issue once, and then only by exceeding the bounds of our "rule of thumb"; I currently suspect that this behaviour is related to manual configuration of Javascript controls in such a way that JS is only partially-enabled for the site, leading to anomalous script behaviour.
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>Where Javascript is considered a risk it seems wisest to disable it entirely (Security Level: High) and then use M-site; restarting Tor Browser should clear any active state that would trigger the issue.

Hi, nice to see one of the facebook developers here.

I have been using `https://m.facebookcorewwwi.onion/` with
[surf](http://surf.suckless.org/) for some time now. I didn't notice any
issue with it, I can say it is loading faster than https://facebook.com/
some times and vice versa.

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