Facebook Container for Firefox

Post by iamdamian » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 2:11 AM UTC

abdullahkhalids wrote: post #75

iamdamian wrote: post #44

I love the general idea behind the container (sandboxed browsing). However, I'm not clear on the exact privacy benefit relative to the much easier path of blocking 3rd party cookies in your browser of choice and installing uBlock Origin. What specific tracking is no longer possible using containers that is currently possible if you're using one or both of those protections? Is it something about 3rd party scripts tha…

Here is an example. This page [1] has stuff from google loaded that is not blocked by a combination of Ublock Origin and Privacy Badger; for instance google fonts (other stuff from Google, Twitter and Facebook is blocked). If I ever log into Google, then my activity on this page will be linked to my account. If I containarize my Google account, then I guess Google can only use my IP or very advanced tricks to attach…

Post by mmwelt » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 2:18 AM UTC

Post by smichel17 » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 2:20 AM UTC

neltnerb wrote: post #303

smichel17 wrote: post #286

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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.…

I agree, your description is more why I like it -- the only websites that get to save any state are the ones I pick to open in specific named containers and which I also specifically granted permissions to with uMatrix (RIP). 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 doe…

Post by jacksonlango » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 2:27 AM UTC

timvdalen wrote: post #210

KallDrexx wrote: post #175

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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.

Post by turdnagel » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 2:31 AM UTC

jethro_tell wrote: post #338

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…

I log into roughly 20 AWS accounts/day. Container tabs make that work. I can compare things side by side or just work on two tasks at once.