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[–]neolib 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I believe you needed to verify your mobile number to use Twitter via Tor anyway (or your account would be immediately suspended), so it wasn't that privacy-preserving.

[–]LarrySwinger2 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Yep. At least Facebook's hidden service is a real attempt at providing privacy.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Sounds like a trap.

[–]LarrySwinger2 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Note that I said privacy, not anonymity. It's privacy in the sense that it really does prevent Facebook and governments from tracing from which location you're logging in. It isn't anonymity because you're expected to go by your real name on Facebook (by peers), and they automatically disable fake sounding names. (Although you can still use a fake name that sounds real, and give your peers the impression that that's your real name. If, for some reason, you want to do that.)

[–]Drewski[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Big places like that can usually ID you over Tor, anyways. They always just use fancy fingerprinting services and de-anonymizing companies like Oracle, who gather all those economized data sources and put a name on them. Any time (like every time), a politician says they wants to crack down on data collection....you know they are totally full of shit if they specifically allow anonymized data. They know better than the general public, that huge services exists to de-anonymize it.

Their real goal is to codify it, making it legal to do with extra steps which create a profitable market and new industry. This data collection funds Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and all those bait products, looking to hook some of your data with government purposely turning the other cheek....because they are the largest customers of this data.