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This has been posted a few times before, some of the more active previous discussions.

4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24849452

~3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16862925

I prefer https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account....

Same, been using for about a year and love them.

I've been using privacy badger [0] and ublock. Is this containarization still something I need to worry about?

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-badge...

yes. containerization allows you to segregate your browsing sessions even when necessary page functionality includes code/assets from entities that would use that inclusion to track. think of it as minimizing your surface area. temporary containers in particular are like a fresh session in every tab.

i combine containers with noscript, ublock, and decentraleyes.

You can literally use the two hand in hand. You don't have to use one or the other.

Personally, I prefer just blocking all Facebook assets on DNS level. Don't forget, they go to war against Apple because Apple wants to force user consent on their tracking activities. They should be ousted from everyone's network.

Not everyone has the luxury of going nuclear with it. Containment works for people whose governments are too cheap for a blog.

Exactly.

My son's school has been using Facebook for most communications. I discussed it with their IT person - they said it was mostly a trade-off between security, privacy, usability, and cost. Most parents didn't care much about privacy, so Facebook won.

It's frustrating for those of us that do care about privacy, but I can see why it's such a difficult decision.

FB Marketplace is legitimately more useful than any other classifieds system available or in the US. Otherwise I would do the same.

That's a short term solution with DoH becoming more widespread... I'm curious how we're going to block DoH in the future since it can be packed into any iot device

Is it still useful with the new total cookie siloing?

I asked the same question here and got some responses, mostly people using containers for other purposes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26237629

I’ve always used Ublock and Pihole with a DNS blocklist set for any Facebook domain, but now I’m wondering if there is anything I might not be catching that this would?

Since you can’t use addons with Firefox mobile, how is the browser compared to brave or safari for privacy and ad blocking?

Firefox nightly has a limited addon system. Ublock for example works. https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...

it's in stable now too. noscript is a lifesaver on low-end phones.

Firefox on Android works with uBlock, Ghostery, Privacy Badger, NoScript, HTTPS Everywhere, etc. On iOS, you're stuck with Safari on at least some level anyway, so may as well stick with Safari.

This, and AFAIK they're still implementing the rest of the API so that all add-ons will be supported (on Android).

For mobile, I recommend Blokada. I recommend using the v4 due to being more stable and resource efficient.

The only addon I use

Facebook is not the only evil site on the Internet. I recommend PrivacyBadger in addition to defend from many other trackers.

uBlock Origin is also a must-have.

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