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Not a 1-to-1 parity at this time, but Brave offers parallel profiles. You can have one running personal interests, while the other has professional interests. E

Not a 1-to-1 parity at this time, but Brave offers parallel profiles. You can have one running personal interests, while the other has professional interests. Each profile is able to host a unique session for Facebook, etc. Brave already prohibits cookie and data bleed-over from one domain to another.

mikece 6y ago
That creates a new window per Profile as opposed to just one window with a bunch of tabs, all conceivably in using their own Container, right?
- mikewhy 6y ago
  How do you juggle multiple facebook / google / anything accounts in that sort of system?
  - w14 6y ago
    Each container can be colour coded (up to 8 colours) and each tab is underscored with the same colour, so you can immediately see which is which.
  - blntechie 6y ago
    The containers can be named and color coded. Also there are keyboard shortcuts which once learned makes it easier to switch.
0-_-0 6y ago
> Brave already prohibits cookie and data bleed-over from one domain to another. Is that similar to First Party Isolation in Firefox?
- jonathansampson 6y ago
  I suspect so, but don't know the details of FPI in Firefox. We don't permit cookies and storage access by third-parties, while also blocking known bad-actors entirely. We also "farble" APIs to create noise for those who do have access. If there are any specific scenarios or questions you have in mind, I'd be happy to discuss further.
  - joombaga 6y ago
    Would Brave's parallel profiles allow me to be signed in to 2 different AWS accounts? I've tried this in Multi-Account Containers for Firefox and SessionBox in Chrome, and they're both pretty buggy, e.g. the console's username menu indicates I'm in account "A", but I'm seeing resources listed from account "B", or EC2 will work fine but clicking over to ECS prompt me to sign in again.
    - jonathansampson 6y ago
      Correct; your AWS session would be scoped to your profile. You could be using your own personal account in the "Personal" profile, and your professional/corporate account in your "Work" profile.
    - blntechie 6y ago
      I use Firefox containers to be logged into 3 AWS accounts and works fine for me.
  - jorvi 6y ago
    > We also "farble" APIs to create noise for those who do have access Does this effectively do the same as the 'Canvasblocker' extension does for Firefox?
    - jonathansampson 6y ago
      Maybe; I'm not super familiar with Canvas Blocker. One thing you have to be careful with when blocking APIs is that you don't generate a negative fingerprint by your restrictions, which is every bit as effective as a positive fingerprint would be. Our farbling is pretty good, and will be getting even better later this month :)
      - jorvi 6y ago
        Despite its name, Canvasblocker actually does that, it sends slightly shifted API data, not only for canvas but for most fingerprinting methods. Nonetheless I'm happy to hear about the improvements in Brave. I've actually shifted from Firefox to Brave since I'm expecting Webkit/Blink to become a 'Linux kernel' for web technologies and thus the web. Keep up the great work! The only true remaining nitpicks I still have with Brave (after the introduction of Sync V2) are 1. iOS Brave being based on Firefox instead of Chrome iOS (I am aware of the technical cost of switching codebase) 2. Prevent browser close on last tab close If those two existed Brave would be perfect for me.

mikece 6y ago

That creates a new window per Profile as opposed to just one window with a bunch of tabs, all conceivably in using their own Container, right?

mikewhy 6y ago
How do you juggle multiple facebook / google / anything accounts in that sort of system?
- w14 6y ago
  Each container can be colour coded (up to 8 colours) and each tab is underscored with the same colour, so you can immediately see which is which.
- blntechie 6y ago
  The containers can be named and color coded. Also there are keyboard shortcuts which once learned makes it easier to switch.

0-_-0 6y ago

> Brave already prohibits cookie and data bleed-over from one domain to another. Is that similar to First Party Isolation in Firefox?

jonathansampson 6y ago
I suspect so, but don't know the details of FPI in Firefox. We don't permit cookies and storage access by third-parties, while also blocking known bad-actors entirely. We also "farble" APIs to create noise for those who do have access. If there are any specific scenarios or questions you have in mind, I'd be happy to discuss further.
- joombaga 6y ago
  Would Brave's parallel profiles allow me to be signed in to 2 different AWS accounts? I've tried this in Multi-Account Containers for Firefox and SessionBox in Chrome, and they're both pretty buggy, e.g. the console's username menu indicates I'm in account "A", but I'm seeing resources listed from account "B", or EC2 will work fine but clicking over to ECS prompt me to sign in again.
  - jonathansampson 6y ago
    Correct; your AWS session would be scoped to your profile. You could be using your own personal account in the "Personal" profile, and your professional/corporate account in your "Work" profile.
  - blntechie 6y ago
    I use Firefox containers to be logged into 3 AWS accounts and works fine for me.
- jorvi 6y ago
  > We also "farble" APIs to create noise for those who do have access Does this effectively do the same as the 'Canvasblocker' extension does for Firefox?
  - jonathansampson 6y ago
    Maybe; I'm not super familiar with Canvas Blocker. One thing you have to be careful with when blocking APIs is that you don't generate a negative fingerprint by your restrictions, which is every bit as effective as a positive fingerprint would be. Our farbling is pretty good, and will be getting even better later this month :)
    - jorvi 6y ago
      Despite its name, Canvasblocker actually does that, it sends slightly shifted API data, not only for canvas but for most fingerprinting methods. Nonetheless I'm happy to hear about the improvements in Brave. I've actually shifted from Firefox to Brave since I'm expecting Webkit/Blink to become a 'Linux kernel' for web technologies and thus the web. Keep up the great work! The only true remaining nitpicks I still have with Brave (after the introduction of Sync V2) are 1. iOS Brave being based on Firefox instead of Chrome iOS (I am aware of the technical cost of switching codebase) 2. Prevent browser close on last tab close If those two existed Brave would be perfect for me.