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Facebook Container Extension
- qwerty456127 4y agoFacebook containers are a killer frature. As soon as I bought a new laptop and became able to afford using Firefox (it was too slow on the old one so I had to use Chrome-based browsers as they worked much faster) I don't have to use multiple browsers nor multiple browser users in separate windows to isolate specific websites. This is awesome. By the way there is a more sophisticated version of the extension which would let you configure rules so specific websites would open in specific containers automatically.
- nathias 4y agoI have containers for all the different data hungry services, the problem is that most things implement google login as their only login option. Just use a magic link.
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- dabedee 4y agoAs mentioned in the other comments, the multi account container extension is more generic and is also one of the reasons I prefer to use Firefox. Chrome is unlikely to reproduce the feature anytime soon.
- benatkin 4y agoThe version at the end of this version page is from 2018 so perhaps a [2018] in the title would be useful. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container/versions/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont...
- tech234a 4y agoNote that the version page only lists the 25 most recent versions, but the rest remain available via the API [1]. That said, this extension only has 26 versions, so it doesn't really matter for this particular case. The API also lists a creation date for the extension [2]. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/api/v5/addons/addon/facebook-container/versions/?page_size=50 https://addons.mozilla.org/api/v5/addons/addon/facebook-cont... [2]: https://addons.mozilla.org/api/v5/addons/addon/facebook-container/ https://addons.mozilla.org/api/v5/addons/addon/facebook-cont...
- _fat_santa 4y agoRelated: Multi Account Containers - Same thing as the facebook container but more generi - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... Temporary Containers - Same container concept but you can create and destroy them on the fly - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-containers https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
- warinukraine 4y agoNote that Temporary containers is NOT by Mozilla. Just saying...
- cypherpunks01 4y agoThese extensions are killer, and are the primary reason I use Firefox. No other browsers have similar functionality at all that I've found. For me, it's the best setup I've found in terms of cookie/session management. By default, I do want every new tab I open to come with a clean slate of no cookies, local storage, SQLite, or whatever other storage/tracking mechanisms are invented. If I need to open up a Google service, I simply open a new tab in my Google container. Combined with a good password manager to quickly login to lower security accounts, it is a marginal increase in work managing sessions, with the benefit of not tracking all your cookies and history around everywhere you go. The features aren't perfect since it's not a workflow optimized for consumer simplicity, but it works for me.
- blakeli12 4y agoI agree. Google and Firefox have a high number and quality of plugins, but Google Chrome has a larger market for plugins and it is easier to find plugins for specific features. However, Firefox supports plugins in the WebExtensions format, which is compatible with Google Chrome, but also supports other formats such as XUL and XPCOM that give developers more control
- mixmastamyk 4y agoYes, also you can have FF drop cookies from all sites but a few at the end of the session. I use this on my other computers and for nontechnical friends.
- wereallterrrist 4y agoEvery time I try to use cool Firefox features and extensions to manage privacy, I wind up frustrated and lost in thought about just how good Firefox could be, if someone with vision and benevolent dictator status took charge. 1. Unify all of the various settings, addons, downloads, bookmark dialogs. They should all just be tabs, with consistent style. I should be able to "nav" to the others easily, and they should probably open as new tabs. 2. Multi-Account Container support baked in. This "containers are built in but borderline useless without more functionality from an addon" is... not great. It also means that no one seemingly "owns" containers to be able to do things like -- have static identifiers/ordering so that containers are actually portable. 3. There are Cookie management extensions, but the best is many years out of date and missing some obvious nice UX features. Many don't take into account containers. It's unclear what backup/restoring my settings will do here given, again, container identifiers don't map across Firefox instances, even when using Sync. Imagine a Firefox with proper container + cookie management support built in. The same way I have this one Firefox instance tweaked, I could declaratively or Firefox-Sync-ly have the same settings for all of my Firefox instances. Even just some tab+session sync would make my life a lot easier. I've theorized about using SyncThings and "locks" to have a single Firefox profile ACTUALLY shared across machines, but that sounds like too much fighting against momentum. I have a "money" container, my money apps open there, their cookies are whitelisted for that container, so I can start to "clear all cookies" and know that for certain sites, in certain containers, their cookies are whitelisted. This is ideal for privacy - I get to whitelist what stays, I get to isolate, I get to clear the rest of the trash at my whim. I love Firefox, but I kinda hate it. I just don't hate it as much as I do Chrome (though, god forbid Chrome ever get proper Tree Style Tabs, it might be over). I just lament how good it COULD BE. --- Ironically, I feel like the existence of a FB specific container extension is... exactly proof that Firefox itself left something on the table. --- edit: to be clear, I don't fault anyone, I understand FOSS and priorities, and all of it. But, I see what could be [with inf resources] and want for better, that's all.
- midoridensha 4y ago>I love Firefox, but I kinda hate it. I just don't hate it as much as I do Chrome ... I just lament how good it COULD BE. I could say the same about many things in the Free software ecosystem.
- handedness 4y agoPrevious discussions: 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26294561 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26294561 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24849452 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24849452 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16862925 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16862925 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16688681 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16688681
- princevegeta89 4y agoIt's quite funny that there is a specialized and exclusive "Facebook container" extension dedicated to stop Facebook and their services alone from tracking you lol.
- CaptainZapp 4y agoThere's also a Google Container available. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-container/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai...
- personjerry 4y agoDoes Ghostery do this for me already?
- plaguepilled 4y agoNot sure, but Ghostery is actually not recommended these days as they do a bit of tracking that you might not expect [0]. As a result, multi-tab containers, temp containers, and total cookie protection can be seen as better alternatives. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/fbb9wo/please_rethink_giving_the_extension_ghostery_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/fbb9wo/please_reth...
- baby 4y agoAnother question is: do you prefer ads that are useless to you, or ads that actually show you stuff you might want?
- jeroenhd 4y agoSure, I want ads that are useful to me. That doesn't mean I want a million companies to stalk me online, finding ways to sell me things I don't need. Tracking ads are almost always trying to sell you something you don't need in ways that you specifically are considered susceptible to. I'm sure there are normal ads out there, but the ones I see are almost always A/B tested and designed to exploit one of my supposed weaknesses. I don't want your psychological warfare but that's what the modern ad landscape has become about. If I read an article about TVs, I expect ads about TVs. If someone writes a social media post about fridges, I expect ads about fridges. Content-based ad libraries are out there for the people that are interested in the products that are being advertised. On the few websites that use them, I've actually clicked on a few. Sadly, most of them were stopped by my adblocker anyway because the redirect the ads led to still tried to track me, but in a few cases the system just worked. If you need to know who I am, where I live, what my gender and age are, how many kids I have, how many pets I have, where I work and where I'm going on holiday this summer in order to sell me something, you don't have anything I want.
- AstixAndBelix 4y agoDo you prefer your door-to-door salesman to know the sexual habits of your household and call you by the nickname only your spouse knows about, or not?
- _boffin_ 4y agoC: I'd rather not see the ads at all. ...and this is coming along swimmingly for some aspects of my life.
- CaptainZapp 4y agoI prefer not being tracked and no surveillance by shady companies. The only "benefit" I see is that I get drowned in bike adds after some research. That's despite the fact that I bought a bike two month ago.
- ajvs 4y agoThis is redundant now that Firefox has Total Cookie Protection (AKA Dynamic First-Party Isolation) on by default[1]. [1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/firefox-rolls-out-total-cookie-protection-by-default-to-all-users-worldwide/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/firefox-rolls-out-total-...
- Bilal_io 4y agoIve switched to Firefox for my browning on desktop and phone. But I am still unable to use it for web development, local host won't store third party cookies. I've tried switching off different settings with no luck. Does anyone know if anything can be done? I am trying to use Firefox developer edition
- Timshel 4y agoNot really unless I miss something you can bypass site isolation with just some basic chain redirection. In the case of container even if you redirect to facebook you won't have much info unless you are logged in this container.
- college_physics 4y agoHow about a firefox extension that automatically clicks 'i dont want any non-essential cookies' upon visiting a site?
- anhner 4y agohttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat...
- college_physics 4y agomade my day!
- ClassyJacket 4y agoHere you go: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-about-cookies/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a...
- Oxodao 4y agoNot the same: > When it's needed for the website to work properly, it will automatically accept the cookie policy for you (sometimes it will accept all and sometimes only necessary cookie categories, depending on what's easier to do)
- illusiveman 4y agoI'm not sure why this is even on the front-page now, given that it's been released for many years already, but in any case, here's my two cents about this topic: Containers are a misunderstood technology. People think about them as a privacy feature, but that's far from real. The only benefit of containers is the ability to have different sessions of the same service in the same windows/profile. That's it. A good use case is when you need to work with multiple AWS accounts. Cross-site tracking is already enabled by default since... 2018? So, using containers as a way of dealing with cross-site tracking is utterly unnecessary.
- lopis 4y agoIt is a privacy feature, specially when paired with Cookie Auto Delete. I have CAD setup to always delete cookies when I close all tabs of a website. But I can add exceptions per website and per container. So I have a Google container that is the only place where I allow Google to leave cookies on my browser. I do the same for a several other websites. Sure, Google can always track you somehow, like IP address, but it's not as easy to track you around the Internet when you always use a fresh new session on each tab.
- illusiveman 4y agodo you realize CAD is unnecessary because Firefox has site isolation for a few years already? anyways, it's CAD the one providing you that sense of privacy, not the container.