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by kristoff_it 3173 days ago
Use Firefox Containers and live happy.

https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/containers/
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bwl 3173 days ago
Great advice, and Containers has actually graduated from experiments to a full release.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

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sf_rob 3173 days ago
The add-on still has functionality / faster iteration that isn't quite baked into the release version.

If you want to be more aggressive, you can also toggle the configs privacy.resistFingerprinting and privacy.trackingprotection.enabled which will probably break some websites.

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phkahler 3173 days ago
But if the comment above yours is correct, you're defeating a small security measure:

>> It's basic fingerprinting used by every major security-sensitive service, like banks.

>> The more entropy (unique bits of data) about your browser context they can collect, the easier to recognize you and see if you're a human or not (and block if they need to).

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Frogolocalypse 3173 days ago
A security measure for some is a privacy breech for others.
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binaryapparatus 3173 days ago
Great link, thanks. I had no idea this exists.
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