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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by Polylactic_acid »

welfare wrote: post #190
cj wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The best way to hide your fingerprint is to be as similar to everyone as possible. Ironically, this also means you should not enable your browser's "Do not track" preference.

Right. In the best of worlds, websites should of course respect the "Do Not Track".

DNT was an entirely pointless idea. Given the easy choice, no one wants to be tracked when not being tracked is an option so browsers rightfully started making it the default since its what everyone wants. But no tracker is going to think, gee, no one wants me to track, guess I'll shut down my business so they ignore the marker or use it as another tracking point.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by Polylactic_acid »

floatingatoll wrote: post #228
LocalPCGuy wrote: post #221

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I've literally never had someone say Safari is better. Chromium, sure...but Safari? It's like the IE of the browser world these days.

That sounds more like the result of a filter bubble than reality. Safari is the default browser on a lot of Macs, but those users don't comment on HN about using it. It would also be useful if you described the properties of Safari that make it "IE" to you, since it's hard to discern what that means otherwise.

Safari is very much like IE. The best part is they don't even allow you to install an alternative to iOS so you end up with people on older ipads who are unable to install an up to date rendering engine.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by aflag »

shock wrote: post #194
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?

The goal should not be to not be fingerprinted since that is a data point in itself, rather the goal should be to appear as a different browser after a short amount of time. There are extensions for Firefox that generate a new "fingerprint" periodically, e.g. 5 mins, for canvas, fonts, audio. Technically they don't generate the actual fingerprint, they add noise to the information that trackers use to generate the fi…

What's the extension name?

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by hannibalhorn »

Mandatum wrote: post #191
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…

Also adding to this - you can set up container-specific proxies with "Container proxy" addon. This is great for when you want to ensure your connection is going over a private network, for instance if you have a regular torrent website (or porn or whatever) - you can configure it to automatically open in a container, like this Facebook addon - but when it opens - it will only connect to the endpoint over a proxy. If…

I use the same setup (mullvad + container proxy) and can't praise it enough. I just keep a mullvad connection open on my router and only route the proxy IPs through it.

Great for all kinds of silly GeoIP restrictions, too - in my part of the world, homedepot.com just spits out "access denied", a foodnetwork.com recipe you find in search results just redirects you to the tudiscovery.com homepage, etc.

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Post by ciriarte »

leecb wrote: post #182
moritonal wrote: post #58

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

> GitHub recommends using only one user account to manage both personal and professional repositories. https://github.community/t/using-one-account-for-all-your-pr...

I wish they didn’t do that. Or preferably, I wish they had native “containers” for work and personal repos.

Explore is one of my favorite features and now it’s crowded with work related suggestions. It makes it harder to separate the personal/professional persona and interests. This problem also manifests in notifications. I want a clear separation so I can focus on my personal life after work.

I’ve thought many times about creating a separate account.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by jzer0cool »

leandron wrote: post #88

Is this possible to request data facebook (potentially) have on you, even if you don't have an account? (I deleted mine about 5 years ago...) Answering my own question: Yes you can -> https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/2032834846972583

that's a useful link. is similar link from other giants like google?

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Post by LVB »

jedberg wrote: post #140

I'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?

Not just you. Firefox is my main browser, but for a growing number of JS-heavy sites I've been using Safari instead. These are not necessarily ad-ridden either, but rather interactive apps (Jira, Whimsical, etc.) were FF is getting super laggy and it's a real distraction. Sad how much faster Chrome and Safari behave on them :/. This is on a new 2020 MBP with plenty of RAM.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by jlokier »

jedberg wrote: post #243
shock wrote: post #196

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> Some websites basically crash the computer What does "crash the computer" mean? Do you get the MacOS equivalent of a BSOD?

Everything freezes, I can't use move the mouse. If I wait, sometimes I can hit Cmd-W and get the tab to close eventually, sometimes I literally have to do a hard power off.

That sounds like it could be that you're running out of memory.

Open the Activity Monitor, switch to the Memory tab, and watch the Memory Pressure graph as well as Memory Used. If memory pressure isn't green, or memory used is close to Physical Memory, you're using too much. In that state, the whole MacOS GUI can become rather unresponsive, fitting your description.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by mastazi »

dotancohen wrote: post #187

I 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.

Google, Twitter, Reddit, Amazon, Medium, the list goes on (there is a Container extension for each one of them).

Special mentions for polluting search results: Quora, Pinterest

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