[tor-talk] Is the recent growth in Ukrainian users confusing google's geoip?

[Paul Syverson]

On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 10:22:19AM -0400, krishna e bera wrote:
> On 18/06/17 05:50 AM, Alec Muffett wrote:
> >In other news, the FB Onion, for some time after it launched, geolocated to
> >London. I can't imagine why.
> 
> How can a .onion geolocate anywhere?  Arent they supposed to be entirely in
> cyberspace and hidden?
> 

You are assuming a hidden (double) onion service.
Facebook uses a single onion service.

https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/260-rend-single-onion.txt

aloha,
Paul