Very good demonstration thank you. Some interesting (an unethical) potential marketing opportunities here. For example, at the bottom of articles only show share actions for social platforms they are logged into.
Not logged in != doesn't have an account
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#103TIL YouPorn is considered social media
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#104Shouldn't a browser not send cookies when the request comes from a different domain? That would seem like the most sensible solution to me. Unless somebody can show a caveat of course.
The interesting thing here is that third-party cookies usually allow a central site (e.g. an ad server) to track a user across many other sites. It's almost the other way around here: "other sites" can track status on a "central site".
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Its only in testing right now, but Firefox Nightly has "Containers" so you can exactly have different "buckets" for different types of browsing - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Projec...
What I really want is something like this and it opening containers automatically based on url sets. So going to facebook would go to the facebook set automatically and isolate facebook. But I don't have to manually open the "facebook profile" to do the switch. Same with twitter, amazon, google*, youtube, apple, etc. If you have multiple accounts, you can have the interface pop up a "choose your subcontainer" automat…
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#109This is why I use 'browser isolation', which is a way to separate different types of surfing activity into different buckets. Currently the best way to do this in Firefox is to create multiple profiles, or in Chrome, you can simply add a different user/persona. Having one profile, or even an entire dedicated browser just for Twitter/FB ensures the login is not spilled over into other sites. If you're surfing the web…
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#110So, interestingly, it had me logged in to reddit, but I don't actually have a reddit account at all. Thoughts?