[tor-talk] Does Facebook .onion work?

[b***@danwin1210.me]

Facebook https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion/ has existed since 2014.
However, I am unconvinced that it works.

I go to the URL, register, get a confirmation email, click it, then have
to enter my phone and receive a code. Fair enough.

When I login I get:

Upload a Photo of Yourself
To get back on Facebook, upload a photo that clearly shows your face. Make
sure the photo is well-lit and isn't blurry. Don't include other people in
the shot.
We use this photo to help us check that this account belongs to you. We'll
delete the photo once we've done this, and it will never appear on your
profile.

This is a new account - I've just created it.

I upload a random photo and apparently this will be manually checked to
ensure it's me. I've no idea how they will do that since it's a new
account. Until then, I can't use the account.

Has anyone successfully created an account using the .onion address?

[bo0od]

I had this issue before , but instead of finding solution within
facebook i migrated to Diaspora. (open source,decentralized, privacy
respect platform).

Post by b***@danwin1210.me
Facebook https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion/ has existed since 2014.
However, I am unconvinced that it works.
I go to the URL, register, get a confirmation email, click it, then have
to enter my phone and receive a code. Fair enough.
Upload a Photo of Yourself
To get back on Facebook, upload a photo that clearly shows your face. Make
sure the photo is well-lit and isn't blurry. Don't include other people in
the shot.
We use this photo to help us check that this account belongs to you. We'll
delete the photo once we've done this, and it will never appear on your
profile.
This is a new account - I've just created it.
I upload a random photo and apparently this will be manually checked to
ensure it's me. I've no idea how they will do that since it's a new
account. Until then, I can't use the account.
Has anyone successfully created an account using the .onion address?

[grarpamp]

have to enter my phone and receive a code.
upload a photo that clearly shows your face.
Fair enough.

Nope, fuck facebook.

Post by b***@danwin1210.me
We use this photo to help us check that this account belongs to you.

We'll delete the photo once we've done this

As with their [ab]use of the phone number, this is all
flowery feelgood bullshit meant to satisfy and pacify
the billions of sheeple that...

"People just submitted it. I don't know why. They 'trust me'. Dumb
fucks." -Mark Zuckerberg

Even if the photo itself is somehow deleted and overwritten
from all their media and backups... you should assume that
the fuzzy signature of it (you) that they're using to "check"
whatever... is still very much there and in use forever.

You could probably test that by opening two separate
accounts maybe a week apart, using the same "deleted"
test picture.

Else their "check" would be just another sheeply lie too.

Perhaps change is meant to help kill "fake news" via
enable more censorship knobs over notorious free speech.

Speak on, faceless, numberless, anons.

[Jonathan Marquardt]

Post by b***@danwin1210.me
Has anyone successfully created an account using the .onion address?

I have succesfully created fake accounts using the .onion address before,
however the last time was already a few months ago. Maybe they changed
something since then. I still needed to enter an email address and a phone
number though.

Nonetheless: Facebook is a direct enemy to your privacy and will put effort
into deanonymizing you. They see their onion services just as a way for Tor
users to connect to them. Many of these users have no choice but to use Tor,
like those ones living in a country where Facebook is censored. For this
scenario, having the user connect via the onion address is just beneficial for
the security of the data you send to them in terms of third parties surveiling
you. They have absolutely no interest in your privacy being protected from
Facebook, though. Quite the opposite, in fact.

[Mirimir]

Post by b***@danwin1210.me
Facebook https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion/ has existed since 2014.
However, I am unconvinced that it works.
I go to the URL, register, get a confirmation email, click it, then have
to enter my phone and receive a code. Fair enough.
Upload a Photo of Yourself
To get back on Facebook, upload a photo that clearly shows your face. Make
sure the photo is well-lit and isn't blurry. Don't include other people in
the shot.
We use this photo to help us check that this account belongs to you. We'll
delete the photo once we've done this, and it will never appear on your
profile.
This is a new account - I've just created it.
I upload a random photo and apparently this will be manually checked to
ensure it's me. I've no idea how they will do that since it's a new
account. Until then, I can't use the account.
Has anyone successfully created an account using the .onion address?

I created one a few months ago. I wasn't asked for a phone number, or a
photo. I just logged in, and all seems cool.

I did all that with Whonix, for what it's worth.