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Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies

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Re: Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies

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Post by MegaDeKay »

alangibson wrote: post #12
iscrewyou wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google websites work better on chrome. Not sure if it’s because google is doing something nefarious or if Firefox is just not keeping up with google website technologies. So, I’ve trained my brain to use chrome as an app only for google websites. When I need to check gmail or YouTube or google calendar, I use chrome. Otherwise I’m on Firefox or safari. It’s worked pretty well. I found I was only really unhappy with F…

What problems do you have? I use Firefox exclusively and I'm a heavy Google app user too (laziness...), but I can't remember ever having a significant issue

I've had weird little breakages. Right now in Firefox, I am unable to search within a given Youtube channel. Works fine in Chrome.

Edit: I am a diehard Firefox user and fall back to Chrome only when I have to because of some weird breakage. One of those is editing within Atlassian's Confluence: find within a Confluence page doesn't work right in FF, and I've often had @name references messed up too upon saving. Chrome works fine.

Re: Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies

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Post by minikites »

peterpost2 wrote: post #19

How is that even legal

Because enough people think making laws restricting companies in any way prevents "innovation". Corporations should be able to do whatever they want because if they were truly bad, they would just go out of business, right? It's the worldview of a third grader.

Re: Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies

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Post by tannhaeuser »

beervirus wrote: post #2

Firefox is so good. It's a continual source of amazement for me that a majority of HNers are using a browser made by the largest data gobbler in the world, instead of one that actually tries to prevent spying on users.

How do you know user-agent strings of HNers? My guess would be that FF has above-average usage here, with FF topics getting upvotes regularly.

Hmm, come to think of it, does anybody know an easy Chrome-blocking trick for displaying "this page is best viewed using FF"? Might be an effective deterrent for non-"hackers" and the start of forking the web for good.

Re: Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies

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Post by cassianoleal »

suvelx wrote: post #31

Are there any plans for complete partitioning? I'd like to see a point where browsing on two different websites are treated as a completely different user. Embeds, cookies, cookies in embeds, etc.

Have you tried Temporary Containers[0]?

I use it to automatically open every new tab in its own temporary container.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

Re: Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies

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Post by iscrewyou »

alangibson wrote: post #12
iscrewyou wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google websites work better on chrome. Not sure if it’s because google is doing something nefarious or if Firefox is just not keeping up with google website technologies. So, I’ve trained my brain to use chrome as an app only for google websites. When I need to check gmail or YouTube or google calendar, I use chrome. Otherwise I’m on Firefox or safari. It’s worked pretty well. I found I was only really unhappy with F…

What problems do you have? I use Firefox exclusively and I'm a heavy Google app user too (laziness...), but I can't remember ever having a significant issue

I’m on a MacBook Pro with a discrete graphics card. YouTube never performs well for me on Firefox. It takes time to buffer the video when I skip ahead or back. And that’s with me being on Fiber internet. Same goes for Gmail. It takes longer to load emails. It’s minor annoyances that add up. For some reason, Chrome always works better whenever I switch the applications.

There’s a good chance my MacBook is not supported properly for Firefox as I’ve run into some internet threads about. But at this point, I’ve settled on this solution. It also makes me spend less time on YouTube once chrome is closed down and I’m solely on Firefox.

Re: Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies

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Post by iscrewyou »

kgwxd wrote: post #10
iscrewyou wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google websites work better on chrome. Not sure if it’s because google is doing something nefarious or if Firefox is just not keeping up with google website technologies. So, I’ve trained my brain to use chrome as an app only for google websites. When I need to check gmail or YouTube or google calendar, I use chrome. Otherwise I’m on Firefox or safari. It’s worked pretty well. I found I was only really unhappy with F…

I use Gmail, YouTube, Calendar and Sheets through Firefox and never noticed a difference. What's not as good?

I’ve replied to one of the other replies above.
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