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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by dr-detroit »

phjesusthatguy3 wrote: post #115
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 use Chrome on Windows 10 at work because we're a gsuite shop and that's just what we do (I don't do personal things on company resources). I use Firefox on Debian everywhere else because Fuck Google.

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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by lucideer »

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…

Thank you thank you for posting this!

While I do agree with some reply-ers that @pkulak's critical wording was a bit strong in the sibling comment here, I have been incredibly frustrated with the default "Multi-Account Containers" add-on.

They have a facility to delete domains from a container, but no facility to add one: something I would've thought would be one of the first things one would want to implement. I understand resources are not always plentiful, but they've added a bunch of other features and yet this one is still lacking.

This is especially infuriating for "intermediate" domains forming parts of a redirect (Google have changed their subdomain structure recently and placing different Google properties into separate containers is now impossible with Multi-Account Containers due to their redirect structure)

The pattern-matching feature in `containerise` looks even better again.

Hoping it works as well as it looks; going to give it a try now.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by smusamashah »

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…

Do multi account containers work with SSBs (site specific browsers / chrome like apps for specific websites)?

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by computerfriend »

aasasd wrote: post #343
hannibalhorn wrote: post #278

Earlier quoted context omitted.

tor provides a socks proxy, which you can assign to a container easy enough w/ the container proxy addon.

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

In the proxy options, there's a box to tick for sending DNS through the proxy or not.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by phatbyte »

While I appreciate this kind of solutions, in my brain all I can think is: what the hell is wrong with the web today?

I mean, what did we do to ourselves? How the hell did we ruin the web experience this much?

Looking back in the 90s, the web wasn't the most pretty thing but how simple it was. You went to a news website and that was it. Click, read, the end.

These days however:

- Go to a news/content website

- wait for the 40MB of useless CSS and JS "minified" crap to download.

- Agree with 2 or 3 huge popups to allow collect your data

- Get a new popup to make you disable your ad-blocker plugin. And if you disable it, you need to refresh the page all over again.

- Get a "subscribe to our newsletter" popup

- Get tracked by amazons, facebooks, etc...

- And once you finally click on an article.... get another popup to subscribe to their premium paid content...

Seriously, we broke the web, and now we are trying to fix it with putting more plugins and tools on top of this problem. I just feel the web is fighting against us and our browsers, and in the end everyone will loose.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by basch »

dirtnugget wrote: post #165
remram wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Damn I also hate the Google accounts mayhem. I will look into those containers. Right now I manually type ?authuser=1 into my URLs to have Google Docs open in the right account, but this breaks when I restart the browser and the page reloads with the wrong account... Why Google removes this parameter from URLs after loading is beyond me.

It feels like multi-user management with google is a feature which was not really considered from the start and never become important enough to refactor the whole thing.

Do they need to refactor much though? I would they could fix it in Chrome, and accomplish basically the same thing.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by tjpnz »

dudus wrote: post #414

Since this is the major advantage and draw of using firefox this should be default and not an extension

I've already moved most of my immediate family over to Firefox. Would save me from having to do the Facebook rant each year.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by fudged71 »

lillecarl wrote: post #3
cooljacob204 wrote: post #2

I'm finding more and more that it might finally be time to switch back to Firefox. Is Google still planning to destroy adblock with Manifest V3?

I'm finding more and more that i want to move to a Chrome fork (Brave) but TreeStyleTabs (Sidebery) keeps me with FF.

I switched to Vivaldi (Chrome fork) as a dedicated browser for Roam Research and associated chrome extensions, but I've been using it more and more.
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