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The easiest way around this is to install a secondary browser (or use a profile in firefox, but that is cumbersome) for work. They could use a different DNS provider in that browser. I use Brave for this and Firefox for my private stuff.

Or they could ask their employer to pay for a VPN services that comes with DNS. Your family member will then have an easy to understand and easy to spot (VPN is ON) way to 'go into work mode' and out of it for private.

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Or you could have a nice router, like Ubiquiti EdgeRouterX, that is cheap and can create multiple networks. You pin the "marketing enabled" device to a different network without pihole as DNS for their device.

More wires. More gear. More complexity. More points of failure. Ugh.

This is exactly what I do.

Brave for work, Firefox for private.

It would be interesting if Firefox could release two nearly identical browsers: Firefox Home, and Firefox Work. The only difference between the two is the name and the color of the icon.

With both programs in their computers, or both apps on their phones, people could more easily isolate the two phases of life, without going through all the rigamarole of profiles.

I haven't gotten into the habit of using them, but I believe this is how the Multi-Account Containers add-on works.

You can use containers, but those only apply to cookies, etc, everything else, settings, add-ons, etc, will be the same. Different profiles allow for different sets of add-ons, bookmarks, settings, etc.

You've really just described profiles, Firefox just needs to make them easier to use like Chrome. On Chrome they're easier to find, allow you to configure the profile icon, and give you the option to create a desktop shortcut to the profile. Mobile is probably more tricky.

You can set a skin or persona per profile, and they will look different.

I use Firefox Developer Edition alongside regular firefox precisely for that purpose: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/

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

You can use FF Developer Edition for work. I would do that, but I use FF for home and Edge at work.

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