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by felipepater 2325 days ago
I have a question... If mozilla automatically blocks third party cookies, can e-commerces actually track you when you are not on their site? And if so (and I gues its very possible) how do containers help?
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Containers are useful for more than just site isolation.

For example, I use one container for browsing this website, and another for Reddit.

If I click an Amazon link from reddit, it might be a funny product I want to look at, but wouldn't consider buying. I don't necessarily want Amazon to know that.

Or similarly for Google Accounts: I can log into separate accounts for youtube and gmail, work and personal, etc. Google has some account-switching built-in, but I find it easier to work this way.

At work, I use multiple AWS accounts, and if I want to look at the AWS dashboards, containers let me use multiple AWS accounts at once. That's not something Amazon makes easy otherwise.