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by munk-a
2983 days ago
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There are other ways that facebook can track you, ublock does counter a lot of it but there is a constant stream of innovations and work arounds by tracking companies to keep a hold on you. I think the financial motivation for them to keep tracking you outweighs the effort ublock can put into stopping that. The firefox container is a legitimately novel approach to stopping the problem though I'm certain it will be attacked as well... I think starting from a stance of distrust gives them a lot more power to combat tracking efforts. |
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uBlock Origin with either "Fanboy's Third Party Social" or "Fanboy's Social Blocking List" selected will block all third-party connections to Facebook servers, period. Of course Facebook can still spy on you via other spy companies, but the "EasyPrivacy" list cuts that down a lot too.
On the other hand, Facebook Container still happily connect to Facebook servers from third-party websites, leaking your IP, useragent, the URL of the webpage you're viewing, headers containing fingerprinting information like fonts , etc. Facebook Container does one thing and one thing only: strip off the Facebook cookie. But this is almost worthless from an information theoretic perspective, because Facebook can trivially de-anonymize you through IP/timestamp/header correlation.