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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by Spivak »

oldandboring wrote: post #41

I use the 'Containerise' plugin along with the following configuration (which I am constantly tweaking) to keep the big tech companies isolated from each other and the rest of the web. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containerise/ I'm also increasingly using it to keep their various properties isolated from each other (eg. keeping Bing separate from the rest of Microsoft) to reduce tracking even furthe…

This add-on has the same problem as Temporary containers. If you want to isolate Facebook and click a link to Spotify it will open Spotify in the Facebook container :(

So far only the Google/FB container add-ons do this right.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by jacksonlango »

moritonal wrote: post #58
mmcclure wrote: post #34

I use Firefox multi-account containers[1] extensively, it's honestly the primary reason I use Firefox these days. The big win for me is that I _hate_ having to use the Google account switcher, so I basically set up a container for each Gmail account (work, personal, old email, etc). The nice bonus feature is you can have certain sites default to containers. I had a paid YouTube account for a while, for example, so ha…

I use it to split my work and my personal GitHub accounts!

Do you use windows? I found that having multiple GitHub account is infuriating on windows because it forces you to go into an obscure security manager to delete a record in order to switch which account your using. Never found a way around it.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by fsuuttg »

I'm a little late to the party. What are those containers really?

One feature that web really needs can be called a "container" or an advanced iframe. That super-iframe would allow to intercept or change the global JS API for the underlying site and everything that app transitively loads. For example, the site wants to use getUserMedia for tracking? Fine, because the container it's in has replaced getUserMedia with a mock, in a way not detectable by the site. This would allow to see what JS API the site uses. This would effectively kill fingerprinting.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by typicalbender »

staz wrote: post #95
typicalbender wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is the Firefox implementation different from Chrome? I don't think Chrome allows you to default links to specific profiles but I have used this feature in Chrome for a while to separate work and personal profiles to sandbox Chrome instances.

afaik profiles in chrome work for the whole instance (like in firefox) but Container work on a per tab basis

Oh I see interesting. That's correct in Chrome you get an entirely separate instance of Chrome with the new profile. Thanks!

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by anticristi »

marketingtech wrote: post #35

This is definitely convenient for now, but the shifting browser ecosystem (along with default security changes in Safari and proposed changes in Chrome) is driving the development and adoption of server-side tracking solutions. This is great for the short-term, but I imagine it won't be relevant much longer. There's a reason why Segment just sold for $3.2 billion... [edited to add: They offer a single integration poi…

Indeed, I'm getting increasingly skeptical that a technical solution is sufficient to fighting surveillance capitalism. Looking forward to see some serious GDPR fines.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by nicholascamera »

JadoJodo wrote: post #23

A few others: - Temporary Containers[0] - Google Container[1] - Google Container w/ Integrations (YouTube, AdTech, Apps, etc)[2] - Reddit Container[3] There are a few others[4] as well, but I've found the Temporary Containers solves the 80%. -- [0] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con... [1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai... [2] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en…

Do not use Temporary Containers.

This extension to Multi-Account Containers looks great at first -- its Automatic mode spins up a new container each time you open a new tab, then switches that tab to an existing container, should one be associated with the TLD you visit.

The problem is that Temporary Containers does not delete these temporary containers. They accumulate in the MAC containers list. There is no way to mass delete them, nor set them to auto-delete when the tab is closed.

These WILL sync to your Firefox account and reappear on every machine. Over 3000 temp container made MAC unusably laggy. This was so destructive of my MAC experience that I uninstalled both extensions. Unfortunately, to my knowledge, there is no way to reset the data MAC syncs to Firefox Account.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by codethief »

aggronn wrote: post #96
Fats wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What I've been doing was to set up a browser profile (local) for each main context. If I have a set of work accounts (google, github, etc.), I have a 'work' profile for it. This isolates all cookies related to 'work' at once, as well as bookmarks, saved tabs, extensions, and settings. It's a total context switcher.

I'm also doing this in chrome. I have about 5 different profiles, aliased to things like `chrome-work`, `chrome-personal`, `chrome-dev', etc. I would love to use FF, but iirc FF doesn't provide something like `firefox --profile=someIdentifier` that opens a new window in my desired profile. edit: Apparently this is bad info. I'll have to give it a try again.

`firefox -P ` works like a charm for me?

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by Nightshaxx »

mmcclure wrote: post #34

I use Firefox multi-account containers[1] extensively, it's honestly the primary reason I use Firefox these days. The big win for me is that I _hate_ having to use the Google account switcher, so I basically set up a container for each Gmail account (work, personal, old email, etc). The nice bonus feature is you can have certain sites default to containers. I had a paid YouTube account for a while, for example, so ha…

That second extension is a great idea! Thanks for sharing!

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by mcny »

typicalbender wrote: post #104
staz wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

afaik profiles in chrome work for the whole instance (like in firefox) but Container work on a per tab basis

Oh I see interesting. That's correct in Chrome you get an entirely separate instance of Chrome with the new profile. Thanks!

and to add to mmcclure's point

I do all my shopping in the shopping container. I have the deals website I frequent set to the shopping container so if I open slickdeals.net in any tab, I get to the shopping container.

One quality of life change I encourage is go to manage containers and select "Select a container for each new tab". Then you can pretend the firefox tab without a container even exists (caveat: does not work with ctrl + t shortcut for new tab)

> The nice bonus feature is you can have certain sites default to containers. I had a paid YouTube account for a while, for example, so having any YouTube link open in my personal account was nice for not getting hit with ads on initial click due to my default Gmail not being the right one.

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