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by bad_user 943 days ago
This is precisely what I'm ranting about. At this point, the Facebook container is privacy theatre.

You don't need a Facebook container, at least since “Total Cookie Protection”. Which itself it's just a better way to “disable 3rd party cookies”, that doesn't break websites, although Firefox's isolation goes beyond just cookies.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-rolls-o...

And Firefox isn't the only one that does it, although it may be the best. But Safari, Brave Browser and even Chrome have deployed similar protections. See for instance: https://brave.com/privacy-updates/7-ephemeral-storage/

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How is it theatre? Do Firefox's containers not actually isolate Facebook from the rest of your browsing? I don't really understand your gripe.
I'm pretty sure I spoke plainly:

> You don't need a Facebook container, at least since “Total Cookie Protection”.

It's theater because it does nothing in addition to what Firefox already does without use of containers.

But keep installing that add-on if it makes you feel good.