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Re: [tor-talk] Facebook Blocking Tor




Orionjur Tor-admin wrote:
> Matthew wrote:
>>
>> On 15/03/11 11:04, Jim wrote:
>>> Marco Predicatori wrote:
>>>> Jim, on 03/15/2011 10:31 AM, wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This could just be a case of somebody having used Tor to do
>>>>> something "abusive" or, considering the curiously worded message,
>>>>> maybe it is something else.  The message I got when I tried to
>>>>> access a Facebook page follows:
>>>>>
>>>>> "You are trying to access Facebook from an IP (Internet
>>>>> Protocol) address that has been associated with a misconfigured
>>>>> ISP (Internet Service Provider), abusive behavior, or is
>>>>> otherwise not able to access Facebook. You may request to have
>>>>> this block lifted from Facebook by contacting us below."
>>>> I think it's something related to the exit node you were using. I've
>>>> just tried to access FB through TOR, and it worked.
>>> Indeed.  It worked fine just now.
>>>
>> I have never noticed this with FB but Craigslist also blocks certain
>> exit nodes.
> 
> Last time they very often require to pass additional verifiaction when I
> use TOR. They don't like that I log in not from ip belonging my location
> indicated in my account.

Just for the record, the message I originally reported (quoted above)
was just trying to access a Facebook page w/o logging in and w/o being
logged in.  That was apparently a transient situation as I have since
loaded that page multiple times w/o incident.

Jim

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