Is there an advantage to this over Chrome Profiles, a feature built-into the browser?
Facebook Container for Firefox
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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#102We'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.
There are at least two mobile reddit interfaces, and one of them does not do this popup junk. The other one is obtained by adding the /.compact suffix, like https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/.compact
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I think that was the OP’s point. FB woule have geolocation information on you because thanks to someone else’s use of your WiFi network on their cellphone, FB can now associate your IP address with a geographical location.
So even though you’re on desktop and haven’t provided them with location permissions, they can still identify your location based on your IP address.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#104Earlier 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)
They fixed the big ones but there are still a bunch of edge cases where you have to log out, like one account is from US and one is from Canada.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#105Is there an advantage to this over Chrome Profiles, a feature built-into the browser?
See "How does this compare to the Facebook Container extension?": https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
It is also my understanding that Chrome Profiles are per-window, while Firefox containers are per-tab.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
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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.
Sorry, are you using `privacy.firstparty.isolate` or container tabs? I think SparkyMcUnicorn was saying the former would not work for them.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I think that was the OP’s point. FB woule have geolocation information on you because thanks to someone else’s use of your WiFi network on their cellphone, FB can now associate your IP address with a geographical location. So even though you’re on desktop and haven’t provided them with location permissions, they can still identify your location based on your IP address.
Ah, okay. I still don't see how this would undo preventing Facebook from knowing what websites you visit. The location of your PC seems like an entirely separate data point.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#108What's a Firefox container and why should I use one ?
As the page explains: it prevents Facebook from tracking you across the Web.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#109I 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?
Does the OP's method allow third party cookies while isolating them from other sites?
That might be more usable than blocking third party cookies for sites that break because of SSO.
Personally I use Containers and block third party cookies and I don't have any troubles.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#110We'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…
Also: after years of reddit not caring about email addresses, it will now nag me every time I log in to verify my email address.