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Mozilla is paid by Google. WHy would they antagonize their own parent company?
Mozilla and Google have a business contract with a well-defined scope. Google has a similar contract with Apple. Google isn't Mozilla's parent company just as it isn't Apple's.
Source: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2016/
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This would let Google know these accounts are affiliated with the same person on your network, whereas containers won't necessarily provide that assumption. Right?
If they wanted to they could associate them other ways by just looking at the IP address and/or browser fingerprinting.
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You can be logged into multiple Google Accounts at the same time without the extension. Just click the little profile icon in the top right and click "Add Account." I'm logged into four, including a Gapps account.
Have they fixed the issues though where some of their apps only work with the primary account you're logged in with? (e.g. the first one)
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.
"... and then I discovered the privacy.firstparty.isolate option (in about:config), which effectively gives every site its own container ..." But with its own IP, possibly a non-routable, private IP ? I think not ... and that's too bad because that is what we really need. We need the ability to chroot jail a GUI program just like we jail named or (whatever). A different root, a different IP, and no access (or knowled…
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> I already checked the box asking to always open foo.com in a specific container. Why is it asking again? I have some sites that I almost always want to open in a specific container. Except when I don't. I suspect this double-confirmation is for people like me: I can chose between "always open this site in this container" and "always suggest opening this site in this container".
I actually have a few cases like this as well, but they are very common cases I encounter 20-30 times a day. I thought containers were clunky too until I went looking for bug reports for the functionality I wanted (always open domain in container) and found out I just wasn't using them right. I'm actually really impressed with how polished it is given the complexities it entails
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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.
Now if I could just force pages to load in Brave instead of web view, that'd be amazing.
Related tip: if you open the Google app, menu -> settings -> Accounts & privacy -> disable Open web pages in the Google app, that will fix it for google now links.
You prevent the big bad company from spying on your browsing activity while, at the same time, explicitly posting to the big bad company's first-party site messages containing all the juicy bits of private information that you went through all that effort to prevent them from inferring through your other activities.
And we pretend this is helping, rather than just adding noise to an already confusing technical landscape.
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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.
What about browser fingerprinting ( https://panopticlick.eff.org/ )? Unless you are using the Tor browser, this appears "uncontainable" especially for folks not using Chrome over Windows 10 or another super generic combination.
So instead of standing out of the crowd why not disguise so well that the tracker doesn't know the real you.
The idea is to use something that gives a fake readout of your fingerprint thus making you look normal but keep changing it occasionally so it leads no where for long time. Try Canvas blocker[1] and/or Canvas Defender for fake readout.
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When you mentioned reddit I thought you were talking about their "install the app" pop up. They have by far the worst mobile experience out of any site I've use more than once in the last 2 years.
There are at least two mobile reddit interfaces, and one of them does not do this popup junk. The other one is obtained by adding the /.compact suffix, like https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/.compact