Facebook has supported Tor-enabled browsers for around two years, and it's now extending its Tor support to Android mobile connections. Facebook says it "commonly receive requests for additional platform support beyond the browser," and a summer intern project has turned into experimental support for using Facebook over Tor on Android devices. Facebook is releasing the feature in the next few days, and users of the social network will simply be able to download the Orbot Android proxy app and then enable a new switch in the Facebook Android app to connect anonymously.



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