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Comment by lukewrites | Hacker News Reader

This is a cool idea for an add-on, I use the Multi-Account Containers add on along with Cookie AutoDelete to do basically the same thing for a number of sites: Google, Facebook, twitter, linkedin (rot in hell, linkedin), amazon, etc. I like having my cookies there so I don't have to log in every time, but also don't want to be tracked around the web.

This looks like a great way to help people who don't want to fiddle with settings to get the same sort of protection. It'd be nice if Multi-Account Containers had an option to add these sites. I should cut a PR for that, probably :\

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I tried using Multi-Account Containers because I loved the idea but found the user interface rather clunkier and more manual than I hoped.

What I really want is for it to be optimised for the common use case with each domain automatically put in its own container, with some whitelisting of common grouped services (e.g. MS and Xbox Live, Facebook and Instagram).

It's very rare that I actually want to share any cookie info between sites as most of it is tracking. In the rare situation you do, the browser could let you disable containers or add them to a group.

I'd also like something that automatically opts out of tracking preferences, as well as something that periodically deletes cookies/localstorage (say every 14 days).

You could then set it all up and forget about it.

I use the Temporary Containers extension and it does much of what you're looking for. I have it set up so every tab is opened in a new container and the container gets deleted when the tab closes. So everything is kept separate from everything else.

This is what first-party isolation is supposed to help with.

I use this as well. You don't need a site specific addon with this. It's actually useful for separating my different google accounts as well. I'd love an extension that makes all tabs in the a particular container private. That way, any kind of tracking would be opt in by assigning it a non private container and limited to that container.

I'm still waiting for bookmarks with the target container baked in. I also use separate containers for three different Google accounts, but opening a bookmark to a Google drive document or file is annoying, because I always have to open a specific container for that Google account tab first so the document access attempt is from the right account.

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