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Contextual Identities on the Web

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Re: Contextual Identities on the Web

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Post by stormbrew »

amluto wrote: post #17

If we can get Tor Browser's first party origin feature in as well, this will be fantastic! I would love to have the ability to type www.facebook.com and get a context that isn't linked to the rest of my tabs. I also want ephemeral containers so I could open a tab that forgets its cookies when I'm done. Think private browsing but without forgetting my history, requiring a new window, or being limited to one context at…

I really feel like the entire session model of the web needs reworking from the ground up. I honestly want most of the websites I use to act more like apps, with a dedicated space for that site and not spread out across N tabs or windows. And also containerized exactly like this describes.

There are some browser extensions that to do this, but they're pretty clunky overall.

Re: Contextual Identities on the Web

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Post by pmontra »

Wonderful. I'm looking forward to a feature to automatically create a container for every new tab, unless explicitly told to open a tab in the existing container. Example: two tabs for the same site, right click, Open Link in New Tab (same container). The browser default could be opening in the same container. An about:config switch would be ok, we'll find it.

Re: Contextual Identities on the Web

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Post by Grue3 »

The idea is good, but what's with the identities they chose? "Personal", "Work", "Banking", "Shopping"? Is "Shopping" supposed to be an euphemism for "Porn"? As far as I can tell, nobody has a "shopping" Twitter account.

Re: Contextual Identities on the Web

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Post by ronjouch »

dfc wrote: post #40
ronjouch wrote: post #38

@HN @dang why the post de-rename? When submitting, I intentionally editorialized the title from something unclear out of mozilla's blog context ( "Contextual Identities on the Web" ) to a more explicit title that speaks by itself ( "Firefox 50 nightly new feature: Contextual Identities" ). Isn't this considered valuable here?

I cant speak for dang but the guidelines make it pretty clear that you should use the original title: is https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Alright, thanks for pointing to them.

- This guideline feels a wee bit sad, because editorializing can be valuable (a title might be crystal clear in context but nonsensical once pulled out of it).

- But I understand how we generally don't want it as it might lead to linkbaiting and misrepresenting the original title.

Re: Contextual Identities on the Web

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Post by ajanuary »

BugsBunnySan wrote: post #33
sleepychu wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

'Private Browsing' was trying to fix history for activities you didn't want recorded.

I think, often it was more that one didn't want others to know about the history of those activities, which is not the same thing as not wanting them recorded. If there had been a safe way to secretly store that history, by having seperate identitie's in Firefox, (with password protection and crypto, etc...), that would've solved that case nicely. And if you clear that secret, protected identitie's history, we'd have…

Separate histories and identities has been a feature for a while. Firefox and Chrome (and probably others) have profiles (though I don't think Firefox had an easy way to switch).

This is different. Cookies and storage are separated, but history, bookmarks, passwords etc. are shared [1]

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/tanvi/files/2016/06/containers-segr...

Re: Contextual Identities on the Web

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Post by janan11 »

This is genuinely super! I've already configured my firefox so that fb exists best within the non-public context. This means i will visit any website which uses fb monitoring, and so forth, and that i won't be logged in!

Re: Contextual Identities on the Web

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Post by hardmath123 »

Grue3 wrote: post #44

The idea is good, but what's with the identities they chose? "Personal", "Work", "Banking", "Shopping"? Is "Shopping" supposed to be an euphemism for "Porn"? As far as I can tell, nobody has a "shopping" Twitter account.

I think one thing that bothers people is when they look up "Samsung Smartphone" or "children's stroller" on Amazon and are suddenly bombarded with advertisements about these things all over the web.

People are also paranoid about online shopping sites changing prices based on tracking information. Here are two articles related to this: http://lifehacker.com/5973689/how-web-sites-vary-prices-base... and http://www.wisebread.com/6-ways-to-avoid-sneaky-online-price...

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