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Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says

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Re: Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says

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post #61

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If you use PrivacyBadger you don't have more facebook cookie on 3rd party websites, so they dont track you. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/privacy-badge... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-badger/pke...

How do you login to Facebook when needed, if there is no cookie?

Edited comment to explain it affects 3rd party websites. Facebook works as usually and all content it the same.

Re: Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says

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post #15

Firefox has a pretty neat feature I discovered recently: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Projec... It lets you run multiple sessions in one window, where each tab belongs to a specific session with separated cookies and such. I've got a bunch of tabs where I'm logged in to Facebook, another set where I'm logged in to Google and the rest of them where I'm not logged in to either. Of course they c…

Old Opera used to have each tab being a separate environment. For some reason we are mostly back to "private windows" now, which aren't separate at all between each other.

Re: Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says

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post #15

Firefox has a pretty neat feature I discovered recently: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Projec... It lets you run multiple sessions in one window, where each tab belongs to a specific session with separated cookies and such. I've got a bunch of tabs where I'm logged in to Facebook, another set where I'm logged in to Google and the rest of them where I'm not logged in to either. Of course they c…

Really love this feature. Incredibly useful for sticky accounts such as google, facebook, twitter, etc. Buttons and scripts follow you everywhere these days.

But it's not just that. It let you easily open several accounts in parallel. I have 3 github accounts, and can open 3 tabs in 3 clicks with the 3 account in parallel. Before than I had to use profiles and it was a pain.

Re: Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says

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post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you use PrivacyBadger you don't have more facebook cookie on 3rd party websites, so they dont track you. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/privacy-badge... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-badger/pke...

How do you login to Facebook when needed, if there is no cookie?

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Re: Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says

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post #15

Firefox has a pretty neat feature I discovered recently: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Projec... It lets you run multiple sessions in one window, where each tab belongs to a specific session with separated cookies and such. I've got a bunch of tabs where I'm logged in to Facebook, another set where I'm logged in to Google and the rest of them where I'm not logged in to either. Of course they c…

Old Opera used to have each tab being a separate environment. For some reason we are mostly back to "private windows" now, which aren't separate at all between each other.

We changed that for a reason. No use wants to be logged out that often. Actually most facebook user probably enter their password one time a month. Less if they use the mobile.

Re: Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says

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post #71

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How do you login to Facebook when needed, if there is no cookie?

Edited comment to explain it affects 3rd party websites. Facebook works as usually and all content it the same.

Thanks for the pointer. Wish this worked on iOS, where the only option is to use a dedicated browser for accessing Facebook. Not sure how Brave deals with Facebook cookies on iOS.

Re: Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says

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post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you use PrivacyBadger you don't have more facebook cookie on 3rd party websites, so they dont track you. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/privacy-badge... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-badger/pke...

How do you login to Facebook when needed, if there is no cookie?

It only blocks third-party cookies, so you can login to Facebook. What it would block is Facebook tracking outside the Facebook domain. Another option is to use something like Self-destructing cookies, which would delete the Facebook cookie when you close the tab.

Re: Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says

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post #52
post #15

Firefox has a pretty neat feature I discovered recently: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Projec... It lets you run multiple sessions in one window, where each tab belongs to a specific session with separated cookies and such. I've got a bunch of tabs where I'm logged in to Facebook, another set where I'm logged in to Google and the rest of them where I'm not logged in to either. Of course they c…

I feel like my Linux user agent is nearly trackable across IP addresses, so few people I know run Linux with Firefox version whatever... but yeah same here: cookies are a non-issue for me. I use a different solution though: self-destructing cookies. Once you closed a tab for more than X seconds (I configured 90 seconds I think), it deletes all cookies (and localstorage etc.) from that domain.

There are add ons to change the user agent to something more generic. You can even randomize it but it breaks many more sites than I was expecting.

Re: Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says

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post #61

If you delete the Facebook cookie (i.e. are completely logged out including username), then click on a link in an email notification from Facebook, it will silently log you in again, restoring the cookie and web-wide tracking. This can be tested by pasting an email notification link to a new private browsing window.

If you use PrivacyBadger you don't have more facebook cookie on 3rd party websites, so they dont track you. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/privacy-badge... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-badger/pke...

also firefox "containers" now allow you to use a separate cookie set for different domains.

https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/containers/

Re: Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says

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post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Edited comment to explain it affects 3rd party websites. Facebook works as usually and all content it the same.

Thanks for the pointer. Wish this worked on iOS, where the only option is to use a dedicated browser for accessing Facebook. Not sure how Brave deals with Facebook cookies on iOS.

Why can't you use firefox on iOS? All addons should work normally.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/ios/

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