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Firefox containers to the rescue.

I've been using Mozilla's extension[0] that contains everything Facebook-related automatically with Firefox containers and it's been working great.

This morning I looked for a similar extension for Google and I've found this fork[1] of Mozilla's extension. It's working as expected so far but I'd love for it to be officially maintained by Mozilla at some point. There is an open issue about it[2].

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook

[1] https://github.com/containers-everywhere/contain-google

[2] https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook/issues/758

Mozilla probably gets too much money from google to do this

Probably the best tech we have against tech giants today. I mean, heavier solutions exist (like QubesOS), FF containers are so easy to use, I hope more people learn they exist.

Does it also contain permissions you give to a website? Will it block it if run within a container?

> Does it also contain permissions you give to a website? Will it block it if run within a container?

No.

How? Access to location will stick regardless if you use containers or not.

If you put all G-services in their own container, google.com/mail can't access google.com/maps cookies, so, will it also not track location. Not sure actually, they indeed probably store your "consent" on their server. Could you block location services per container perhaps?

Hmm this is a smart move indeed, all of a sudden I'm logged into G-maps whereas I wasn't before... FireFox helpfully opened google.com/maps in my Google container...

> google.com/mail can't access google.com/maps cookies, so, will it also not track location

google.com has now direct access to your location, it doesn't need any cookies.

But it "doesn't" know who you are if you have not logged in. Or do you mean that the permission isn't container-specific?

(Of course it can probably make a pretty good guess, just as well it could do before this change.)

Would be nice if you could spoof or block access to your location per FF container. I'll see if I can put in a feature request.

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