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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by walrus01 »

dao- wrote: post #49
walrus01 wrote: post #22

If 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.

That the targeted advertising and profiling will still come to you. Live with a person who joins fb mommy groups and buys diapers online? Prepare for a barrage of relevant ads. The main point is that the combination of relationship-inference and geolocation can undo probably 70% of your own privacy protection measures, through ignorant ordinary use of the fb app by friends, family and coworkers. Then combine that with fb facial recognition profiling from photos third parties may upload...

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by droopybuns »

dkasper wrote: post #46
jackgolding wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Thank you! Helpful tip!

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by SparkyMcUnicorn »

07d046 wrote: post #27

I 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.

This doesn't work for me.

I have a "personal" container that I use for my Google/PayPal login, and sites that I use Google oauth with, same for a "work" container.

If each site used it's own container, I couldn't sign in with Google without signing in multiple times (let alone the mess of signing out old sessions, which I do once in a while).

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by briandear »

Benjamin_Dobell wrote: post #39
jackgolding wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

LinkedIn are ever so slightly worse. But it's tight.

LinkedIn absolutely “wins” when it comes to a sucky mobile web experience.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by briandear »

Operyl wrote: post #26

> In addition, websites that allow you to create an account or log in using your Facebook credentials will generally not work properly. Because this extension is designed to separate Facebook use from use of other websites, this behavior is expected. As much as I love these kinds of things, this is going to break something for my less tech-y family. As such, I can't let them use this kind of thing.

Maybe you should can’t let them use Facebook logins?

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by dao- »

walrus01 wrote: post #51
dao- wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That the targeted advertising and profiling will still come to you. Live with a person who joins fb mommy groups and buys diapers online? Prepare for a barrage of relevant ads. The main point is that the combination of relationship-inference and geolocation can undo probably 70% of your own privacy protection measures, through ignorant ordinary use of the fb app by friends, family and coworkers. Then combine that wit…

Sure, they will still track you as best as they can (though as I said Facebook doesn't have geolocation access on desktop). This doesn't change the fact that without your browsing profile, Facebook will have less knowledge about you than it would normally have, period. Facebook can't "undo" that.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by chrischen »

07d046 wrote: post #27

I 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.

Wouldn't setting your cookie settings to strict (block all third party cookies) do the same thing?

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by shimon »

jacobsenscott wrote: post #12

I've been trying to use Firefox's containers for a while. They are pretty clunky - you need to open a blank container tab using a menu and then enter the url. I forget to do that all the time, so after some time you are just logged into everything in the "global" container, or logged in to google and twitter in the same container etc. If you check the "Always open this page in this container thing" - then it prompts…

I recommend the "Switch Container" extension for this.

For developers, containers and this extension also make it super easy to test what a page looks like when logged in as a different user.

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