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It’s reason enough to leave my Facebook account open. I’ve just stopped using it anymore and that’s fine.

It’s been months and I don’t miss the constant barrage of political rants from my friends on both sides of the political spectrum.

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At least on FB you can unfollow the main offenders. My feed is surprisingly tolerable. Enjoyable, even. The unrelenting barrage of political content comes to me from Twitter. Twitter is designed to surface popular tweets even from those you don't follow, and it's almost always low effort political tripe. It's exhausting.

I got bored of my feeds. Someone else succulently put, "20 minutes per week on a Sunday is more than enough to keep up with people"

Succinctly? :P

No idea what I was spelling there.

I just assumed that your source was a cactus.

He's a bit of a prick, but he makes some good points.

> At least on FB you can unfollow the main offenders.

Bingo. Works great for overly vocal political friends, and the pushy MLM friends, too.

I’ve noticed that Kickstarter adds about 5 new ad identities every time I turn around. I’ve been blocking these every time I notice them and don’t get fewer Kickstarter project ads (not from individual projects but from things like “best tech kickstarters” or “cool tech kickstarters” or “hot tech kickstarters”

That’s why I have a separate Firefox profile. It’s the only site that gets used on there.

I am a lot more productive at home and save so much more time.

in case you hadn't seen them: have you tried container tabs instead of separate profiles?

I have. But I haven’t read the spec and don’t really know if they truly isolate Facebook and all it’s way of associating with my computer/Firefox profile to my account. With how shady Facebook is, I don’t believe it for a second they haven’t found a work around to identify my profile through Container Tabs. It’s paranoia maybe? But it’s warranted I think.

So for a good measure, I just use a separate profile.

yea, that's a pretty good reason :) afaik the list of what containers separate is here, if you're interested: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Projec... (I can't speak to its up-to-date-ness tho, I'm not familiar with how well maintained the moz wiki is)

there are definitely some leaks, and there is a "facebook container" extension which plugs some (all?) of those... but yea. if you want maximum separation, you want maximum separation, profiles are probably always going to be the safest bet.

I haven't logged on to Facebook since New Year's Eve and I honestly don't miss it at all. I'm ashamed to admit that I was pretty much checking it hourly before that point.

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