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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by avian »

nextos wrote: post #120
nicholascamera wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Temporary Containers has an option "Delete no longer needed Temporary Containers" which defaults to 15 minutes, but can also be set to immediate. Are you setting this option to something else? Temporary Containers works really well for me. I have per domain isolation, which only breaks very very few sites (Gmail and Outlook 365). For those I have regular persistent containers. Alternatively, I can always open a new p…

It's a long-standing bug that also affects me. It's quite annoying since it's easy to irreversibly hose up your sync account by going over the remote storage quota. Maybe you don't have a Firefox account and/or sync setup?

There are related issues opened for Temporary Containers, MAC and Firefox and at least from the public discussions not much is happening about it.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by scotu »

Spivak wrote: post #101
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.

If I understand what you want correctly: the Firefox multi account container extension (is that the default one?) allows to "manage containers" and by clicking on the one you want you can select "limit to designated sites" so you can, from a container, click a non containerized link and get that link opened in the default/different container

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by BadOakOx »

jmnicolas wrote: post #118

Browser finger printing will defeat this. I wonder how prevalent it is. Most of the sites I visit seem not to recognize me without cookies but I always wonder if it's just a "ploy" to make me feel untracked. While I'm at it, anyone has good resources on how not to be finger printed (without going full Tor browser)? Do I have to disable Javascript?

I don't know how effective it is, but Firefox has some basic protection (and an experimental one): https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-protection-agai...

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by scotu »

Spivak wrote: post #86
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can make all of these yourself as long as you've got the Temporary Containers add-on installed. I don't see the benefit of installing four addons for this purpose, as the security risk of third-party addon vendors surely outweighs the convenience of a pre-configured container.

Has temporary containers gotten the feature to drop the container when leaving the target sites? That's the main difference for me. If I'm in FB Messenger and click an external link I don't want that link to be opened in the FB container.

I think it's actually just a containers feature now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24850878

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by kelnos »

welfare wrote: post #126
jmnicolas wrote: post #118

Browser finger printing will defeat this. I wonder how prevalent it is. Most of the sites I visit seem not to recognize me without cookies but I always wonder if it's just a "ploy" to make me feel untracked. While I'm at it, anyone has good resources on how not to be finger printed (without going full Tor browser)? Do I have to disable Javascript?

Hi, I did my thesis on browser fingerprinting. Most algorithms that build profiles and look for combinations of features that are unique. The best way to hide your fingerprint is to be as similar to everyone as possible. So that means use as much of the standards as possible that comes with the OS. Do not use anything that would not be considered mainstream (e.g. don't be the only person from Guatemala on Opera, Linu…

Does changing things often also help? Like, if there was a way to set things up so the browser would randomly change (on every request, or maybe every N minutes) bits of your user-agent, font list, screen resolution, etc., would that make it harder for sites to track you?

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by Spivak »

scotu wrote: post #142
Spivak wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If I understand what you want correctly: the Firefox multi account container extension (is that the default one?) allows to "manage containers" and by clicking on the one you want you can select "limit to designated sites" so you can, from a container, click a non containerized link and get that link opened in the default/different container

Thank you thank you! That's fantastic! I wish I didn't have to manually assign containers but ya know what, good enough.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by mey »

nunez wrote: post #129
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…

Multi-Account Containers with Containerize is an unbeatable combo. Until Chrome gets something like this (I doubt it), I'm never leaving Firefox because of it.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containerise/ this?

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by kelnos »

BadOakOx wrote: post #143
jmnicolas wrote: post #118

Browser finger printing will defeat this. I wonder how prevalent it is. Most of the sites I visit seem not to recognize me without cookies but I always wonder if it's just a "ploy" to make me feel untracked. While I'm at it, anyone has good resources on how not to be finger printed (without going full Tor browser)? Do I have to disable Javascript?

I don't know how effective it is, but Firefox has some basic protection (and an experimental one): https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-protection-agai...

The thing that's annoying about this is that some sites trust the browser's report of your timezone and don't let you change it.

When I tried enabling this, Slack, despite having timezone settings in the preferences dialog, showed me message timestamps in UTC, and there was no way to change it.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by [deleted] »

yowlingcat wrote: post #125
anticristi wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Agreed. I'm hoping to see more analogous stateside laws like California's CCPA as well.

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