Good start targeting one of the biggest offenders. Now make the next step implementing full blown ad blocker the way Brave has done it.
Facebook Container for Firefox
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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#42I used Firefox's containers for about a day, and then I discovered the privacy.firstparty.isolate option (in about:config), which effectively gives every site its own container with no user effort. That, combined with Cookie AutoDelete, seems to work well.
nice, I wish there were a dedicated checkbox for this in the settings page. I didn't know about this until now.
Yup, this is how I thought containers would work like at first.
9/10 times I navigate off a link from one container and boom I've pulled in everything in that new container by ctrl+l reflex.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#43Im using uBlock origin and PrivacyBadger, will this cover something Im missing?
How about Decentraleyes?
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can use containers for any website / group of webistes. The specific Facebook-only container extension is for people who don't want to hassle of organizing their containers themselves and only want one for Facebook.
Do you have any more information on how to do this? A link? I'm interested in isolating google.
You can accomplish it without any extension by creating a 'Google' container and choosing yes on every Google site when it asks you if you want to always open in that container.
Or you can fork the extension, change the container name and color, and update the array of domains.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
> then it prompts you with an "are you sure you want to open this page in this container" every time you go to that page which is very annoying. That isn't true - you say yes/no the first time and then it's automatic. Works great for me. I create a container for every service I want to stay logged into and whitelist the specified sites with Cookie Autodelete (which is container aware), then auto delete all other cook…
Yeah, I'm not getting it after the first "Are you sure?" prompt, but that first one is annoying. I already checked the box asking to always open foo.com in a specific container. Why is it asking again? Also, I'd love to do this in my bookmarks, instead of having to visit each site and set the container one-by-one.
> I already checked the box asking to always open foo.com in a specific container. Why is it asking again?
I have some sites that I almost always want to open in a specific container. Except when I don't.
I suspect this double-confirmation is for people like me: I can chose between "always open this site in this container" and "always suggest opening this site in this container".
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#46We're going from cold war to all-in. Not just a privacy question. Reddit nags me every time I hit the front page, even returning from a story, asking me to log in. For most sites I need to create ublock filters to prevent pop-ups with useless "we use cookies", subscription requests, ads or social media bars that fills half the screen, etc. etc. etc. Every newspaper I read has decided that autostarting video and strea…
When you mentioned reddit I thought you were talking about their "install the app" pop up. They have by far the worst mobile experience out of any site I've use more than once in the last 2 years.
Fortunately it takes one tap to update your preference to have it stop nagging you to install the app.
https://www.reddit.com/r/redditmobile/comments/6hk9ot/androi...
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#47We're going from cold war to all-in. Not just a privacy question. Reddit nags me every time I hit the front page, even returning from a story, asking me to log in. For most sites I need to create ublock filters to prevent pop-ups with useless "we use cookies", subscription requests, ads or social media bars that fills half the screen, etc. etc. etc. Every newspaper I read has decided that autostarting video and strea…
> I'm giving up on the web They said, while posting on a web forum
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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#48I used Firefox's containers for about a day, and then I discovered the privacy.firstparty.isolate option (in about:config), which effectively gives every site its own container with no user effort. That, combined with Cookie AutoDelete, seems to work well.
Any problems? For example, CDNs are in different domains. Some ecommerce sites use payment services from other domains.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#49If anyone in your household uses FB from the IOS or android mobile app from wifi, it will have both your IP address and GPS coordinates. Correlating that multiple people share one residence or workplace is easily done for FB. You can keep playing a shell game like run all your desktop PC traffic through a VPN somewhere so that the FB container doesn't show up as the same geolocation, but you or an ignorant non techni…
What's your point? Facebook still won't know what websites you visit on your PC. It also doesn't have geolocation access there unless you explicitly grant it.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#50Good start targeting one of the biggest offenders. Now make the next step implementing full blown ad blocker the way Brave has done it.
Firefox has tracking protection. It's a pretty effective ad blocker for me.