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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by oldandboring »

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 further.

  !*.atlassian.net , Atlassian
  !*.bing.com , Microsoft Bing
  !*.bitbucket.org , Atlassian
  !*.github.com , Github
  !*.google.com , Google
  !*.imdb.com , Amazon Home/Personal
  !*.linkedin.com , Microsoft LinkedIn
  !*.live.com , Microsoft
  !*.microsoft.com , Microsoft
  !*.nytimes.com , New York Times
  !*.reddit.com , Reddit
  !*.twitter.com , Twitter
  !*.youtube.com , Google
  amazon.com , Amazon Home/Personal
  console.aws.amazon.com , Amazon AWS
  music.amazon.com , Amazon Home/Personal
  news.ycombinator.com , Hacker News
  smile.amazon.com , Amazon Home/Personal
  www.amazon.com , Amazon Home/Personal
You get the idea. Really powerful.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by jaflo »

InvaderFizz wrote: post #36
idreyn wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Was just coming back to this thread to say I use the Multi-Account Containers extension to isolate my Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Google Search sessions from the rest of my web browsing, and I highly recommend it. The terminology is a little confusing: Containers or "Container Tabs" is a session-management tool that's baked into Firefox, while Multi-Account Containers is an extension on top of that that allows yo…

Does this work for separating Google accounts? Right now I use safari, chrome, firefox, and edge to keep the four identities I use for different projects separate thanks to Google not playing nice at all with the GCP account you are using not being the primary Google Signin.

Yes, it does

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#44

Post by iamdamian »

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 that uBlock Origin doesn't block by default and that don't require 3rd party cookies?

I'm not looking for a general answer about containment or sandboxing or a nice user experience for separating environments or profiles; I'm looking for a precise attack/tracking vector that makes this worth switching browsers for.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#47

Post by [deleted] »

wodenokoto wrote: post #30

What’s the way to set this up for custom domains? I basically only want to be logged into my mail, Facebook HN and twitch (and they don’t need to share tracking cookies) and have everything else happen in a no-cookies stored environment. But do I need a container extension for each of those sites or what is the deal here? And do I exit the container when I click a link to another domain?

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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by gruez »

StavrosK wrote: post #4

I'm loving Firefox Containers for various use cases, but is running Google/Facebook in them worth the extra hassle if you use uBO/Privacy Badger? It blocks all that stuff anyway.

You might be able to escape facebook using ublock, but you're going to have trouble escaping google. It's everywhere: youtube embeds, google cdn (for scripts/fonts), google maps embeds/autocomplete, recaptcha.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by Angeo34 »

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…

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