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Facebook Container isolates your Facebook activity from the rest of your web activity in order to prevent Facebook from tracking you outside of the Facebook website via third party cookies.

11 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 3 stories, 8 comments · first 2018-03-27 · latest 2023-07-06

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  1. …The github page looks fairly active, and there is a fix merged already for this https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook/pull/936 and once issue #933 gets merged, it will generate a source release for 2.3.11 at https://github.com/mozil
    comment by sp332 · 2023-07-06 · in Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours
  2. …it to be officially maintained by Mozilla at some point. There is an open issue about it[2]. [0] https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook [1] https://github.com/containers-everywhere/contain-google [2]…
    comment by m5r · 2022-11-24 · in maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
  3. …from the docs[1]. This will stop you from having to turn the extension on and off entirely. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook/blob/master/docs...
    comment by mozillamaxx · 2020-10-21 · in Facebook Container for Firefox
  4. …domain does open in any container. I have to be careful if google prompts me to login to not login. https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook/issues/45#issuec... https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook/blob/1e37bc677ac...
    comment by ytjohn · 2018-09-09 · in First-party isolation in Firefox: what breaks if you enable it?
  5. FF also has an extension for always opening Facebook in an isolated container: https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook
    comment by anticodon · 2018-06-14 · in Don’t Let Facebook, or Any Tracker, Follow You on the Web
  6. see https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook and https://github.com/containers-everywhere/contain-google
    comment by zie · 2018-05-21 · in Firefox can now stop Instagram and Facebook from tracking you online
  7. …felt ideal. We have an open issue to add Messenger to the list of FB domains that are contained. https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook/issues/45
    comment by groovecoder · 2018-03-27 · in Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re being tracked
  8. …here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont... The source code is available: https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook
    comment by ddalex · 2018-03-27 · in Mozilla launches Facebook Container to isolate your web browsing from Facebook