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Re: Facebook Container Extension

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Post by krsdcbl »

baby wrote: post #31

Another question is: do you prefer ads that are useless to you, or ads that actually show you stuff you might want?

In my experience surfing the web without adblockers or account containers, the whole "ads of stuff you may want" thing is bogus and has been utterly blown up to justify tracking.

Most Ads fall into a few categories: - in-app ads that target you for known account demographics: those tend to be targeted at simple stereotypes and seldomly actually something i might want - Ads on news websites or blogs that aren't much more targeted than what could be derived from the general interest group / general target audience - And finally, the bulk of all the oh-so-perfectly-targeted ads: are actually mostly just retargeting automations that keep infuriatingly showing you the very things or similar things you just bought for the next few days

I'm yet to discover a product that would have been nice to have via ads

Re: Facebook Container Extension

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Post by johannes1234321 »

baby wrote: post #31

Another question is: do you prefer ads that are useless to you, or ads that actually show you stuff you might want?

If I want ads, I want ads relevant to what I am doing at the moment. Not for what I bought last week already. Analyse the site the ad is on, not me. Just like the ads on Google search, which created their money printing machine.

Re: Facebook Container Extension

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Post by aendruk »

cypherpunks01 wrote: post #6
_fat_santa wrote: post #3

Related: Multi Account Containers - Same thing as the facebook container but more generi - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... Temporary Containers - Same container concept but you can create and destroy them on the fly - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

These extensions are killer, and are the primary reason I use Firefox. No other browsers have similar functionality at all that I've found. For me, it's the best setup I've found in terms of cookie/session management. By default, I do want every new tab I open to come with a clean slate of no cookies, local storage, SQLite, or whatever other storage/tracking mechanisms are invented. If I need to open up a Google serv…

The key insight for me was that persistence should be opt-in—when I want a website to remember me, I take action to express that—the opposite of the current norm.

I sometimes wonder whether Google was strategically preempting this paradigm when they mainstreamed ephemeral sessions under the framing of sneaky mode.

Re: Facebook Container Extension

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Post by Bombthecat »

_fat_santa wrote: post #3

Related: Multi Account Containers - Same thing as the facebook container but more generi - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... Temporary Containers - Same container concept but you can create and destroy them on the fly - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

Is there something similar for mobile?

Re: Facebook Container Extension

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Post by hhjinks »

baby wrote: post #31

Another question is: do you prefer ads that are useless to you, or ads that actually show you stuff you might want?

I had to move some money across EU country lines. I did a handful of searches to research my options, but quickly landed on a regular bank transfer. I was hounded by money transfer service ads for an entire year afterwards, at least the few times I used youtube without an ad blocked. A whole year after I no longer had any need for the service. "Useful" ads have never been useful to me.

Re: Facebook Container Extension

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Post by prmoustache »

baby wrote: post #31

Another question is: do you prefer ads that are useless to you, or ads that actually show you stuff you might want?

> or ads that actually show you stuff you might want?

It doesn't really matter because it almost never happen. What happens is you get ads for things you either looked out of curiosity or already bought.

Re: Facebook Container Extension

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

omeid2 wrote: post #40
CaptainZapp wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's also a Google Container available. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai...

Not by Mozilla, and the "wny" is clear. Unfort.

Presumably because Mozilla get most of their money from Google? Or is Facebook doing more tracking than Google?

Re: Facebook Container Extension

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

baby wrote: post #31

Another question is: do you prefer ads that are useless to you, or ads that actually show you stuff you might want?

I want to have useful search tools to find products when I have a need to fill, rather than being part of a machine to eat the planet's resources as quickly as possible in order to profit a small percentage of people whilst we all die from the effects of GCC.

Two minutes searching for a product on Google or Amazon should disavow anyone of the notion that they have any desire to match products to people that want them.

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