Facebook Container for Firefox

Post by utucuro » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 11:01 AM UTC

pkulak wrote: post #66

oldandboring wrote: post #41

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 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!

Post by pzmarzly » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 12:15 PM UTC

seszett wrote: post #397

Mandatum wrote: post #191

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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 just discovered Mullvad (just a VPN provider) and for some reason, they don't have "English" in the list of languages available for their site. So they redirected me to the Dutch version because I'm in a nominally Dutch-speaking region, and I had no option to get it in English. I had to go with half-translated French until I noticed that I could replace the "fr" in the URL with "en", and actually get to an English-…

Post by erinnh » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 12:40 PM UTC

TheFlyingFish wrote: post #349

aasasd wrote: post #343

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Does FF send DNS requests via the proxy? Depending on the personal threat model and the ISP, that might matter.

FF defaults to DNS-over-HTTPS now, so I would imagine it does, although I can't find solid confirmation.

Post by greyhair » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 12:57 PM UTC

Post by hannibalhorn » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 1:16 PM UTC

bogomipz wrote: post #353

hannibalhorn wrote: post #264

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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.

>"I just keep a mullvad connection open on my router and only route the proxy IPs through it.' I'm interested in your setup. Do you configure your router to have a point to point tunnel with Mullvad then? I didn't know this was a thing. Do you then just have a separate container proxy for each GeoIP region you want to access?

    wireguard wg0 {
        address ***/32
        mtu 1420
        peer *** {
            allowed-ips 0.0.0.0/0
            endpoint ***:51820
        }
        private-key ***
        route-allowed-ips false
        up-command "ip route add 10.64.0.1/32 dev wg0 && ip route add 10.124.0.0/16 dev wg0"
    }