Since you can’t use addons with Firefox mobile, how is the browser compared to brave or safari for privacy and ad blocking?
Facebook Container – Mozilla
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Re: Facebook Container – Mozilla
#12I’ve always used Ublock and Pihole with a DNS blocklist set for any Facebook domain, but now I’m wondering if there is anything I might not be catching that this would?
Re: Facebook Container – Mozilla
#13Since you can’t use addons with Firefox mobile, how is the browser compared to brave or safari for privacy and ad blocking?
Firefox nightly has a limited addon system. Ublock for example works.
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...
Re: Facebook Container – Mozilla
#14Personally, I prefer just blocking all Facebook assets on DNS level. Don't forget, they go to war against Apple because Apple wants to force user consent on their tracking activities. They should be ousted from everyone's network.
Not everyone has the luxury of going nuclear with it. Containment works for people whose governments are too cheap for a blog.
Exactly.
My son's school has been using Facebook for most communications. I discussed it with their IT person - they said it was mostly a trade-off between security, privacy, usability, and cost. Most parents didn't care much about privacy, so Facebook won.
It's frustrating for those of us that do care about privacy, but I can see why it's such a difficult decision.
Re: Facebook Container – Mozilla
#15This has been posted a few times before, some of the more active previous discussions.
4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24849452
~3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16862925
Re: Facebook Container – Mozilla
#16Personally, I prefer just blocking all Facebook assets on DNS level. Don't forget, they go to war against Apple because Apple wants to force user consent on their tracking activities. They should be ousted from everyone's network.
That's a short term solution with DoH becoming more widespread... I'm curious how we're going to block DoH in the future since it can be packed into any iot device
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#17Since you can’t use addons with Firefox mobile, how is the browser compared to brave or safari for privacy and ad blocking?
Firefox on Android works with uBlock, Ghostery, Privacy Badger, NoScript, HTTPS Everywhere, etc. On iOS, you're stuck with Safari on at least some level anyway, so may as well stick with Safari.
Re: Facebook Container – Mozilla
#18Since you can’t use addons with Firefox mobile, how is the browser compared to brave or safari for privacy and ad blocking?
For mobile, I recommend Blokada. I recommend using the v4 due to being more stable and resource efficient.
Re: Facebook Container – Mozilla
#19Since you can’t use addons with Firefox mobile, how is the browser compared to brave or safari for privacy and ad blocking?
Firefox on Android works with uBlock, Ghostery, Privacy Badger, NoScript, HTTPS Everywhere, etc. On iOS, you're stuck with Safari on at least some level anyway, so may as well stick with Safari.
This, and AFAIK they're still implementing the rest of the API so that all add-ons will be supported (on Android).
Re: Facebook Container – Mozilla
#20Is it still useful with the new total cookie siloing?
I asked the same question here and got some responses, mostly people using containers for other purposes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26237629