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Re: Facebook Container Extension

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Post by illusiveman »

I'm not sure why this is even on the front-page now, given that it's been released for many years already, but in any case, here's my two cents about this topic:

Containers are a misunderstood technology. People think about them as a privacy feature, but that's far from real. The only benefit of containers is the ability to have different sessions of the same service in the same windows/profile. That's it. A good use case is when you need to work with multiple AWS accounts.

Cross-site tracking is already enabled by default since... 2018? So, using containers as a way of dealing with cross-site tracking is utterly unnecessary.

Re: Facebook Container Extension

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Post by charcircuit »

black_puppydog wrote: post #32
sfmike wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

does anyone know why chrome can't do containers, this is also why i use firefox

It would seem its again the interest of one of the biggest contributors to the open source code base of chromium...

For discussion about it.

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-dev/c/IZ...

In response to asking about supporting multiple profiles between different tabs.

>Extraordinarily difficult. I would expect person-years of effort for this, as the link between profile and window is deeply ingrained throughout the code.

Chrome doesn't support containers because it would take a big investment that no one is currently willing to make. Google doesn't want to spend millions of dollars and deprioritize more important work for a niche feature that not that many people benefit from.

Re: Facebook Container Extension

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Post by rtontic »

rendaw wrote: post #21
_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...

After reading about it repeatedly here, I finally tried Multi Account Containers and I'm disappointed. I want to press a button and get site X open in container Y. But as it is, after searching for the container, you then have to search for the website you want to open in it separately. It makes having lots of containers hard, plus there's the risk of accidentally opening sites in your "main container", etc. You have…

Another thing you can do, hold left click on the new tab button. You will get a drop-down where you can chose which container to open the tab in.

Re: Facebook Container Extension

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Post by rand0mx1 »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #22
cypherpunks01 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Yes, also you can have FF drop cookies from all sites but a few at the end of the session. I use this on my other computers and for nontechnical friends.

Its buggy https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1767271

Re: Facebook Container Extension

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Post by ranting-moth »

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…

> I do want every new tab I open to come with a clean slate

I'd like that too, how can you do that?

I've been using Firefox containers for a while. When I open a new tab it opens in the default non-container which carries it's own storage cesspit.

Re: Facebook Container Extension

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Post by chupasaurus »

ajb wrote: post #58
sfmike wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

does anyone know why chrome can't do containers, this is also why i use firefox

It does have profiles, which can be used in the same way. Haven't used it in a while, I think the limitation is that you can't use a different profile per tab; you need a whole new window

FF has that profile system too.

Re: Facebook Container Extension

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Post by einr »

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 don't want any ads, ever, but if I have to pick, then absolutely I want ads that are completely useless to me. My issue with ads is that they are trying to manipulate me and I think that is morally wrong. This is less likely to succeed if they show me things that I would never buy.

Re: Facebook Container Extension

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Post by ComodoHacker »

alwayslikethis wrote: post #8
_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...

Temporary containers are the final solution to cookie based tracking, just like how forwarding services like Simplelogin (not affiliated) is the final solution to email spam. They have very similar underlying principles: reduce exposure by reducing the power you grant and starting afresh every time to avoid information leakage. With temporary containers, only whitelisted sites can have persistent storage and they are…

For me the solution is Cookie AutoDelete extension. It allows cookies but silently deletes them (and optionally other storage) after specified amount of time (5 hours for me). So the sites don't break and I don't have to close browser to clear cookies.
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