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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by icc97 »

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…

Putting in my year of birth to 1911 (but the same month/day so half friends don't send me wishes on the wrong day) used to mostly destroy their targeted advertising. It was all adverts for arthritis medication. They're steadily figuring it out, but it's taken them about 10 years.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by gerardnll »

I don't trust Facebook. I am 'aware' of the importance of privacy. I install 'Facebook Container' because I prefer to install an extension to keep Facebook kind of controlled than to delete my account.

It doesn't make sense to me. If you are so privacy concerned it seems to me that the step you should take is to delete your account but not to look for ways to avoid being tracked by the company you don't trust, although you use its services.

If this extension is not for Facebook users but for everyone, why don't implement it by default and for a lot of other websites?

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by icc97 »

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…

Perhaps we need a specific Tor shell Facebook app. Then it's just a wrapper onto the desktop site.

Just force your kids to use that on mobile and use Tor on desktop with Facebook as the homepage.

You can tell your kids that 'Tor' means 'Facebook' in Icelandic.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by vidyesh »

newscracker wrote: post #170

If you use Firefox Containers, including the Facebook Container, please also use Cookie AutoDelete [1] to get rid of cookies from closed tabs across containers. Otherwise, in my observation, sites will still be able to track you if you reuse a container (even after closing all tabs of that container) for a specific site. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...

Honestly, I think one should use the container for specific things and just destroy it.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by siddhant »

gerardnll wrote: post #182

I don't trust Facebook. I am 'aware' of the importance of privacy. I install 'Facebook Container' because I prefer to install an extension to keep Facebook kind of controlled than to delete my account. It doesn't make sense to me. If you are so privacy concerned it seems to me that the step you should take is to delete your account but not to look for ways to avoid being tracked by the company you don't trust, althou…

> It doesn't make sense to me. If you are so privacy concerned it seems to me that the step you should take is to delete your account but not to look for ways to avoid being tracked by the company you don't trust, although you use its services.

A lot of people I know use Facebook because they have to. For instance, a friend of mine keeps track of job postings that are only posted in certain Facebook groups.

I would modify the argument such that if you're so privacy concerned, don't put any personal information on Facebook, and limit what Facebook has access to (which is what the container extension is doing).

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by creato »

Someone1234 wrote: post #70
minot wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My use case is multiple Google accounts. I can log in to multiple Google accounts at the same time in different containers and answer emails very easily.

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.

I'm not sure if this is the same thing you are suggesting, but what I like to do is use the "Manage people" option from the menu at the top right. My work and home google accounts are never logged in at the same time in the same chrome window. It seems to keep everything separated pretty well, even extensions seem to maintain their own settings/"activated-ness" within each person/account.
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