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Anyone in the know: what would it take to implement a "container over tor"? I am not currently a tor user, but absolutely would if I could integrate it with my current workflow (using the temporary containers addon).
tor provides a socks proxy, which you can assign to a container easy enough w/ the container proxy addon.
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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?
The rate of change is of course an important factor, but some things like the order of how you installed fonts (which depends on the order you installed the software that fonts came with) or the plugins you have installed in your browser are still going to be constant. What we saw was that people tried to spoof their UA only made it more unique. (E.g. your UA says Internet Explorer but you have Chrome specific plugin…
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> I use multi-account containers and temporary containers so that all my new tabs are isolated Worth mentioning that with the addon cookie auto-delete, you can more or less emulate temporary containers.
Temporary containers has a plethora of settings for when to open a new container. For example, I have a rule enabled that will open links in a new temporary container when they leave the current one. That's a terrible explanation, so let me give an example to make it clear: - I have a GitHub container - github.com and gist.github.com are set to always open in the GitHub container - Say I am currently browsing github.…
Everything else opens links in a new container with the hope to make it as close as possible to looking like a different person clicked that link. I know it won't work that well since the IP doesn't change nor the user-agent, but at least it helps with the most lazy tracking.
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The time to switch back to Firefox was years ago. But better late than never.
The only asterisk to that statement would be if OP was a Mac user. Using Firefox for reddit and youtube nets me 4 hours of battery life on a 2020 13 inch MacBook Pro, while safari will get my 6.5-8 hours with the same usage.
Speaking of Safari, maybe it's a matter of preference or habit, but for me it's has a very weird UX
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…
And then when I click back to the work container and try to access mail.google.com I get:
"400. That’s an error.
The server cannot process the request because it is malformed. It should not be retried. That’s all we know."
Bug? It seems like a really messy UI. Why can't they make Multi-Account Containers work just like Facebook Container? Or have make 1 window == 1 container?
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…
I tried it but it doesn't seem to work. I clicked a new "Work" container, then went to mail.google.com, and it instantly took me out of the container. And then when I click back to the work container and try to access mail.google.com I get: "400. That’s an error. The server cannot process the request because it is malformed. It should not be retried. That’s all we know." Bug? It seems like a really messy UI. Why can'…
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I tried it but it doesn't seem to work. I clicked a new "Work" container, then went to mail.google.com, and it instantly took me out of the container. And then when I click back to the work container and try to access mail.google.com I get: "400. That’s an error. The server cannot process the request because it is malformed. It should not be retried. That’s all we know." Bug? It seems like a really messy UI. Why can'…
You can actually have different profiles for Chrome which achieve exactly the same thing.
How bizarre that I desperately try to contain these monsters in digital cages, keeping them on a VPN leash, carefully adding plugins, trying to maintain delicate balance. Sometimes I try too hard, the monsters are offended, throw errors, hide the contents away. Sometimes I miss something, and they devour my privacy bit by bit, unnoticed. I spend sleepless nights scouring the internet for new codes, secret browser opt…
You may be better off not playing with the creepy neighbor.
Why stop at just Facebook? What about Google, Doubleclick, Disqus, Google Analytics, Twitter and all the others that have embedded widgets all over the web?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...