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Am I the only one who uses browser profiles to separate my personal browsing from work or other organizations I'm a part of? When I mention this approach to people they give me a strange look like I'm crazy.

In Chrome you just create a new profile for each identity you have. If you're opening random incognito windows or using different browsers all the time to log in with different identities, you should be creating profiles instead. Everything is separate including bookmarks, sessions, cookies, extensions, etc.

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For Firefox users, Multi Account Containers are definitely the way to go.

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

I use separate browsers for work and personal. On a work machine, my personal stuff will be in Firefox and my work stuff in Chrome/Safari/whatever.

It's just easier for me to manage that way. That being said, my work google account is connected to my personal phone which is probably gonna mess me up at some point.

I go even further, corporate laptop for work, personal laptop for personal stuff.

A dedicated laptop solely for work is basic CYA and good practice, everyone should do it.

Yes, even if work doesn't provide a laptop for work purposes and you need to furnish your own. Same goes for phones, etc.

It might be expensive to maintain dedicated hardware to cordon off work from everything else, but it's still cheaper than if you hadn't and the inevitable biological waste impacts the aerodynamic wake generator.

I used to run Qubes on my laptop with one dedicated VM for school. However, I had to change to Windows for a mutlitude of reasons. Might work for some though, and certainly cheaper than dedicated devices.

Essential if you are an employee. Same machine may be ok as a freelancer.

I go even further. Two completely separate households - one for work, one for personal.

Insert obligatory Severance joke here

This is the way.

Not far enough. I have a dedicated internet provider subscribed to a place I rent specifically for work whose address I only use for work purposes, 3 states over. THAT is the way.

I take the next step, Vivaldi for personal and Chrome for work profiles. Firefox for non important profiles.

We don't know exactly why the account got taken over, but I doubt using the browser login would have prevented this (school azure taking over whatever microsoft account was logged in).

Also, Google tracks you across all websites once you login to the browser (even if you don't use google login on them). If they weren't tracking you, using the browser profiles would be great.

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