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by darkpuma 2681 days ago
Mozilla released the extension "Facebook Container", which is great, but that's only one of the FANG companies notorious for invading privacy. Where is the "Google Container" extension from Mozilla? There exists such an extension but it's by a third party, not by Mozilla. It would be nice to see it from Mozilla since I trust them more than I trust some random extension developer; I can feel confident in recommending Facebook Container to people but I'd have to keep up on the reputation and ownership of the Google Container extension to feel good about recommending it to others.

I guess what I'm saying is it would be nice for Mozilla to be a bit more bold in demonstrating this independence from Google. It seems to me they still fear/respect Google more than Facebook.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai...
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kasbah 2681 days ago
Those container extensions are just the "Firefox Multi-Account Containers" extension developed by Mozilla with some default settings for Facebook and Google.

https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers

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beatgammit 2681 days ago
Yup, and I use it religiously. I keep my work Google account separate from my personal Google account, which is separate from everything else. If I don't trust it, it gets a separate container.
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tialaramex 2681 days ago
Putting Facebook in a box is easier for many people because they have fewer things that are connected to their Facebook. Any such things break with containerisation. Firefox spells that out, but people will be surprised anyway.

Let's give a real world example. I use Facebook container. I also have YouTube premium. So, normally I don't see YouTube adverts because I'm logged into my account with Premium.

But inside the Facebook container, I am an anonymous YouTube user, with no Premium account. So if a user embeds a YouTube video, it has adverts.

Now, if I used the Google Container, all YouTube videos, other than on YouTube itself, would be anonymous and so have adverts.

There's a lot more integration like this for Google than Facebook, and so the experience with containers is worse for Google than Facebook.

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