Based on Facebook, the increase of Tor over recent years has been “about” linear, noting that some 525,000 individuals who got the service via Tor in June 2015 increased to more than one million in April this year.

“This [Tor] increase is a reflection of the choices which people make to use Facebook over Tor, and the value it supplies them. We expect they are going to continue to provide comments and help us keep improving,” TechCrunch quoted Facebook as saying.

Tor enables anonymous Web browsing by sending information through multiple measures that are encrypted instead of making direct connections that protects the identity of its users.

Facebook created a committed address in October 2014 for Tor access, making it simpler for users give them privacy and to connect via Tor.

The iOS platform of Apple still doesn’t have Tor support.

Naturally, someone may post a status update saying that they’re at some eatery, for example, and that would de-anonymise them.”

Tor could be used in countries the Tor statement included.

“Many folks use Tor in states where the net is censored, not in order to be anonymous. Tor enables them to get the uncensored web, including reaching Facebook. For example, in Iran, Facebook is blocked.