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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by user15128 »

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…

lots of people have a dynamic ip. if you don't want that fb (or any other web-thing) correlates an ip with you, you should get an isp that gives you a dynamic ip.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by mwambua »

jackgolding wrote: post #35
narag wrote: post #31

We'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.

Instagram's mobile site gives Reddit a good run for its money. It recently just stopped working for me... Chrome throws a "Too many redirects".

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by dfee »

gfody wrote: post #83

can someone explain why this is necessary? shouldn't anything that happens outside of any site stay outside that site, why a special extension just for facebook?

Let’s say you go to example.com and they’re using a Facebook Pixel for analytics - so example.com can continue marketing that widget to you after you’ve left their site.

Well, when you visit example.com/shop/widget1 you essentially load a 1x1 pixel image from the url ads.facebook.com/pixel?metadata=goes-here and you web browser sends your Facebook cookie along side the request (as it does for every request to .facebook.com).

So Facebook knows what site you’ve visited and what your interest are so that example.com can better market to you, their prospective customer.

The web relies on cookies so you can remain logged in, have a shopping cart, and do most everything else that is stateful (though sometimes this stuff gets implemented in the browser’s webdata cache called localStorage). The container effectively makes the “session” - all data that is identifying - unique to the tab. So you couldn’t open a second tab and remain logged in to your bank account, for example.

the urls are examples; I’m on my phone, not on my laptop.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by baddox »

swsieber wrote: post #73
Someone1234 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can be logged into multiple Google Accounts at the same time without the extension. Just click the little profile icon in the top right and click "Add Account." I'm logged into four, including a Gapps account.

Have they fixed the issues though where some of their apps only work with the primary account you're logged in with? (e.g. the first one)

Over the years they have definitely fixed those one by one, but I’m not sure if they’ve fixed all of them. I believe the last problematic one I encountered was some ads-related developer console a year or two ago.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by ReverseCold »

jakecopp wrote: post #94

In my opinion Containers are the best thing in Firefox. I'm sacrificing battery life just so I can use them on my Mac. I finally feel free to search for whatever I want and not have second thoughts.

> I finally feel free to search for whatever I want and not have second thoughts.

Doesn't Google also link sessions through IP Address? That combined with "how you usually browse" + interests is a very powerful deanonymization tool.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by Manishearth »

SparkyMcUnicorn wrote: post #53
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).

Google logins still work, this is a different kind of container from the Firefox container tabs.

I use this feature with container tabs and it's fine. There are so far one or two sites I've come across that this breaks, neither of them anything I care about.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by jakecopp »

ReverseCold wrote: post #97
jakecopp wrote: post #94

In my opinion Containers are the best thing in Firefox. I'm sacrificing battery life just so I can use them on my Mac. I finally feel free to search for whatever I want and not have second thoughts.

> I finally feel free to search for whatever I want and not have second thoughts. Doesn't Google also link sessions through IP Address? That combined with "how you usually browse" + interests is a very powerful deanonymization tool.

You may be very right.

I haven't encountered any targeting related to search terms yet, but I'm sure they have the capability.

I do need to make the leap to DuckDuckGo at some point!

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