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I'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
by illusiveman 4y ago
I'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.