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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by cfadvan » Wed, Apr 18, 2018, 3:07 AM UTC

narag wrote: post #31

We're going from cold war to all-in. Not just a privacy question. Reddit nags me every time I hit the front page, even returning from a story, asking me to log in. For most sites I need to create ublock filters to prevent pop-ups with useless "we use cookies", subscription requests, ads or social media bars that fills half the screen, etc. etc. etc. Every newspaper I read has decided that autostarting video and strea…

Giving up on Reddit is just the same response to stimulus, but the web is vast and varied. You’re giving up on a lot of good to spite a lot of bad, but you’re just going to hurt yourself. Use uNlock and uMatrix and after a few days of regular surfing and a little tweaking you won’t even realize that shite is still there.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by Klasiaster » Wed, Apr 18, 2018, 3:12 AM UTC

GNOME Web (Epiphany) lets you easily save a web page as web application, so that it gets an own desktop icon and browser profile to separate it from your normal browser.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by dingo_bat » Wed, Apr 18, 2018, 3:13 AM UTC

Now do it for Google!

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by dingo_bat » Wed, Apr 18, 2018, 3:17 AM UTC

dao- wrote: post #50

EastSmith wrote: post #41

Good start targeting one of the biggest offenders. Now make the next step implementing full blown ad blocker the way Brave has done it.

Firefox has tracking protection. It's a pretty effective ad blocker for me.

That's absolutely wrong! Tracking protection just results in dumber ads. But they still clutter your pages and waste your bandwidth.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by dingo_bat » Wed, Apr 18, 2018, 3:18 AM UTC

atonse wrote: post #13

cptskippy wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's got Facebook in the name to ride the hate wave? I'm so glad Mozilla hired a Marketing team... /s

It's smart – my only complaint when seeing this is "how come nobody's focusing on Google?"

Mozilla is paid by Google. WHy would they antagonize their own parent company?

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by vidyesh » Wed, Apr 18, 2018, 3:18 AM UTC

07d046 wrote: post #27

I used Firefox's containers for about a day, and then I discovered the privacy.firstparty.isolate option (in about:config), which effectively gives every site its own container with no user effort. That, combined with Cookie AutoDelete, seems to work well.

I use containers to keep some activities limited to it. As my primary browsing is open all the time which. For each of these activities I use a separate container; shopping, work, research, banking, payments and social.

I use uBO with dynamic filtering[1] + I've replaced 'CAD' with 'Forget Me Not'[2] works like a charm.

[1]https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-qu... [2]https://github.com/Lusito/forget-me-not

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by cosmotron » Wed, Apr 18, 2018, 3:19 AM UTC

Here's a link to when this was first appeared on HN (March 27): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16688681

The comments have input from the add-on's author (groovecoder).

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by bmurphy1976 » Wed, Apr 18, 2018, 3:21 AM UTC

jdironman wrote: post #76

_jal wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is super rude, and "giving up" is the right answer - to annoying sites. Screw them. The single nicest thing you can do for yourself after an ad blocker is to get Javascript under control. I personally am using JS Blocker, which takes too much effort, but allows you to selectively load JS. There are others - I like the control JS Blocker offers, but it is a bit annoying. This is not without problems; there are site…

How about just whitelist the good guys?

That's what I do on Android, except I use Brave instead of Chrome/Firefox.

I change the default settings to block all JavaScript by default, and then use the Brave button to whitelist sites I trust and actually want to use.

Browsing the web (especially news sites) on my Android has gone from "a complete nightmare" to "tolerable" because of this.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by pavs » Wed, Apr 18, 2018, 3:22 AM UTC

gowld wrote: post #28

asdsa5325 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can use containers for any website / group of webistes. The specific Facebook-only container extension is for people who don't want to hassle of organizing their containers themselves and only want one for Facebook.

Hey why is Firefox giving Facebook preferential treatment?

I think you meant to ask why is Facebook treating its users like shit?

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by vidyesh » Wed, Apr 18, 2018, 3:23 AM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #69

07d046 wrote: post #27

I used Firefox's containers for about a day, and then I discovered the privacy.firstparty.isolate option (in about:config), which effectively gives every site its own container with no user effort. That, combined with Cookie AutoDelete, seems to work well.

Doesn't Privacy Badger do about the same, but more granular and breaking fewer things?

By not breaking things, Privacy Badger will essentially let some cookies and trackers pass through which aren't cross tracking but these could leave behind a trail. Some will stay dormant until activated.

CAD or any similar cookie deleting add-on will essentially kill any cookie that isn't required for your active tabs. This way nothing is left behind to track or trail you.