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I'd really like to be able to follow links from within a container and have them open in the default container (or a specific container if they are pinned). Ex

I'd really like to be able to follow links from within a container and have them open in the default container (or a specific container if they are pinned). Example: I contain google.com to a container called "Google", then I perform a Google search. I click a search link, and it opens in the Google container. Ideally this would still use default. There is the option to right click every link, select "Open in Container" and then pick the default but it's not really optimal for two reasons: 1. Manual effort by the user 2. The link is to a redirector on Google's site, before it forwards to the third party site (though I guess I can live with this, its kind of outside scope of the feature). So, really, I just want to pin a domain to a container. If I leave that domain, I want it to change containers. I haven't been able to find a good way to do this automatically, with any of the configurable settings.

Drdrdrq 9y ago
I think opening links this way would defeat the purpose of containers (with respect to privacy) because that would allow Google to link containers (most sites contain some JS from G). If this is not what concerns you then I guess some extension could fix it?
- heroprotagonist 9y ago
  Well, that specific example is a confusing type of link, but it would not really expose your privacy any more than having to right click 'Open in a different container' if you have segmented off the Google domain.. EG, if you open it within the Google container, your privacy is most exposed. Whether you have to right click and select 'Open in a different container' when following search or email links, or whether you can have the browser do this automatically, the end result is the same. You're following a Google link, so if they create a special one that tells them which result you clicked on, they still see it and know about it because it's on their domain. But once you get to that third party domain, you're in a separate container instead of one filled with your own special Adsense cookies. There are extensions you can use to remove Google's redirect link in their result page. But this is kind of tangent to what I was trying to get across. If one has goal is to contain a web property, giving them their own container but then keeping that container open when you leave their site is not really containment.

Drdrdrq 9y ago

I think opening links this way would defeat the purpose of containers (with respect to privacy) because that would allow Google to link containers (most sites contain some JS from G). If this is not what concerns you then I guess some extension could fix it?

heroprotagonist 9y ago
Well, that specific example is a confusing type of link, but it would not really expose your privacy any more than having to right click 'Open in a different container' if you have segmented off the Google domain.. EG, if you open it within the Google container, your privacy is most exposed. Whether you have to right click and select 'Open in a different container' when following search or email links, or whether you can have the browser do this automatically, the end result is the same. You're following a Google link, so if they create a special one that tells them which result you clicked on, they still see it and know about it because it's on their domain. But once you get to that third party domain, you're in a separate container instead of one filled with your own special Adsense cookies. There are extensions you can use to remove Google's redirect link in their result page. But this is kind of tangent to what I was trying to get across. If one has goal is to contain a web property, giving them their own container but then keeping that container open when you leave their site is not really containment.