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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…
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Firefox has tracking protection. It's a pretty effective ad blocker for me.
That's absolutely wrong! Tracking protection just results in dumber ads. But they still clutter your pages and waste your bandwidth.
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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.
Related: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/FirstPartyIsolation
(I don't use FB)
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…
"We use cookies on this site! Read our Cookie-policy mambo jumbo here! "
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.
But with its own IP, possibly a non-routable, private IP ?
I think not ... and that's too bad because that is what we really need. We need the ability to chroot jail a GUI program just like we jail named or (whatever).
A different root, a different IP, and no access (or knowledge) of the rest of the system. If I used facebook, that's the browser I would run it in.
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> 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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That's absolutely wrong! Tracking protection just results in dumber ads. But they still clutter your pages and waste your bandwidth.
That tracking protection is a good enough ad blocker for me is absolutely wrong? You do realize that tracking protection actually blocks ads, don't you?
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Things will break like logging in with Google/Facebook/other OAuths that use popup window redirects, iframe services like Disqus or Facebook comments, Google's captcha will become more annoying, less local caching will happen which means slower browsing in general.
Yet another reason why you should avoid using service to log into another as much as possible.
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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.