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I would pay actual money to help get a feature like that into Chromium or Firefox. Hell, if Firefox added that exact feature I might actually rethink my decisi

I would pay actual money to help get a feature like that into Chromium or Firefox. Hell, if Firefox added that exact feature I might actually rethink my decision to switch to Chrome once they drop support for all the addons I use.

cpeterso 10y ago
There is an experimental implementation of that feature, called "First Party Isolation", in Firefox today. You just need to set the `privacy.firstparty.isolate` pref = true in about:config. With this pref enabled, advertiser X will serve you different cookies on site A and B. They won't be able to track your browsing history from site to site. However, this breaks a lot of sites that depend on third-party services for login authentication or comment systems. Here is the Firefox bug where you can report broken sites: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1299996 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1299996
groovecoder 10y ago
We are also hard at work supporting add-on authors porting to WebExtension APIs. I'm especially trying to help Privacy & Security add-on authors.
- pmontra 10y ago
  uBlock, NoScript, Self Destructing Cookies. Also DisableWebRTC. Firefox would be Opera, Chrome or Vivaldi without them. No particular reason to use it or a random one among the others. Stylish and Greasemonkey are useful too, when sites insist doing the wrong things. I hope all of them survive the switch. Will they?
  - groovecoder 10y ago
    You can keep track at https://arewewebextensionsyet.com/#addons https://arewewebextensionsyet.com/#addons
  - MikusR 10y ago
    uBlock Origin started as a Chrome extension.
kingstonTime 10y ago
This would actually be implementable with the new WebExtensions for containers https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/contextualIdentities https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/AP... Essentially building a new container per origin.

cpeterso 10y ago

There is an experimental implementation of that feature, called "First Party Isolation", in Firefox today. You just need to set the `privacy.firstparty.isolate` pref = true in about:config. With this pref enabled, advertiser X will serve you different cookies on site A and B. They won't be able to track your browsing history from site to site. However, this breaks a lot of sites that depend on third-party services for login authentication or comment systems. Here is the Firefox bug where you can report broken sites: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1299996 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1299996

groovecoder 10y ago

We are also hard at work supporting add-on authors porting to WebExtension APIs. I'm especially trying to help Privacy & Security add-on authors.

pmontra 10y ago
uBlock, NoScript, Self Destructing Cookies. Also DisableWebRTC. Firefox would be Opera, Chrome or Vivaldi without them. No particular reason to use it or a random one among the others. Stylish and Greasemonkey are useful too, when sites insist doing the wrong things. I hope all of them survive the switch. Will they?
- groovecoder 10y ago
  You can keep track at https://arewewebextensionsyet.com/#addons https://arewewebextensionsyet.com/#addons
- MikusR 10y ago
  uBlock Origin started as a Chrome extension.

kingstonTime 10y ago

This would actually be implementable with the new WebExtensions for containers https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/contextualIdentities https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/AP... Essentially building a new container per origin.