Just easier to stop using Facebook.
Isn't it tracking you anyway with all these Like(TM) buttons spread around?
Facebook Container for Firefox
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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#202This 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…
Couldn't you block all requests to Segment's integration point?
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#203I 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…
Oh wow. I used containers for a while, but the official plugin for managing them was awful. You had to go to the site, set the container, then click an approve button the _next_ time you went to it. Took forever to get things set up, and it never synced the settings despite claiming it would. I'm going to give this one a try. Thanks!
> but the official plugin for managing them was awful
I wish we'd stop being so hard on products. It's likely those developers read these comments. Having babies be called ugly by your peers is rough, actively trying to be more respectful on the internet leads to a nicer industry.
EDIT: Just to clarify - I'm not saying your intention was disrespectful. I've written many comments similar to this, and continue to do so, but I've started to try and curb it because I imagine it's what YouTubers feel like reading their comments section.. But this is by our own peers in our industry.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#204How does this stop facebook from tracking you? I'm fairly certain that on facebook, google, everyone, etc tracking is largely through processing request logs to gstatic.com or fbcdn.net for example with a referrer header saying what site you are visiting, your source IP and various other things to fingerprint the request.
> various other things to fingerprint the request
Isn't this exactly how it prevents FB from tracking you? Those "various other things" that it uses will all be different between different containers. I think the source IP thing is a valid point, which is why other commenters have pointed out that you can force your FB container to connect through a proxy, while your other containers don't.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#205I am hard pressed to think of any other website in the 25 year history of the WWW that was so abusive of its users that web browsers had to start inventing features to protect user from it.
www.google.com seems like the obvious answer.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#206This 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…
Couldn't you block all requests to Segment's integration point?
They use CNAME aliasing to make the requests seem like they're coming from your own domain, so you'd have block a specific URL on a site-by-site basis, and there are also fully server-side APIs so you don't even know when data is being captured or shared.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm finding more and more that i want to move to a Chrome fork (Brave) but TreeStyleTabs (Sidebery) keeps me with FF.
What advantages does brave have other than their weird ad replacement thing? I’ve weirdly moved to Microsoft edge from Firefox for something’s recently. Unfortunately the chrome developer tools are awful.
> Unfortunately the chrome developer tools are awful
You are literally the first person I've ever heard say this. I've heard a ton of people say they want to switch to Firefox, but can't leave the Chrome dev tools behind. Mind telling us why you find Firefox dev tools superior?
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#208I absolutely love the containers feature in general, and the Facebook one in particular. One severe use case limitation (for me) involves using containers to separate work/home accounts. I am a developer, so I do a lot of screen sharing / presenting. Theoretically, I could use Firefox containers to separate things into "work" and "personal." However, all containers have a shared autocomplete history for the URL bar.…
I keep all job related stuff in separate desktop VM and only ever share that window over Zoom/MSTeams/Slack on the host system (better native pref). No surprises in years.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#209I've been using containers on Firefox for a long time now. And I love it. But my biggest issue is Firefox performance on MacOS. The only reason it's not my primary browser is because Safari is just so much better. What I wonder is, is this just me, or does everyone have this problem?
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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had never heard of this so I just tried to reproduce this - I have no trouble logging into two separate GitHub accounts in different Chrome profiles. What makes Firefox profiles different?
I think he's talking about the windows credential manager for HTTPS authorization for cloning/pushing.
Aha! I've always just used SSH authorization with GitHub.