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One thing I found that broke tracking algorithms was the ‘every tab is a new random profile’ extension. I can’t remember the name as I haven’t used it in a while and it broke a lot of logins.

They could not build a profile on you and it would break their system of tracking user login per device.

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You probably mean Temporary Containers…?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

Thanks to both of you. That seems valuable.

I've recently switched from Containerise + Temporary Containers to Auto Containers. Brand new addon, but the dev is responsive and IMO it works much better for creating new containers on the fly as you browse.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/auto-containe...

https://github.com/Shajirr/FF-Auto-Containers

That's really handy! I like that it handles domains automatically

Edit: Seems to break ad blocking and there's some issues with login. Such as adding a container for YouTube requires also doing *.google.com since that's how the login is handled. Interesting and I'll keep playing around with it

Usually, with most browsers, you can't separate YouTube from Google in order to watch their videos. People can get around this using NewPipe and various forks, that are mostly for Android. There is also FreeTube for the desktop, that doesn't allow ads, but does connect to Google.

Yeah my bigger concern is that it is disrupting ublock. I want that running in all containers

It does not break uBlock Origin / ad blocking…

Well when I reloaded my YouTube tabs in it they all had intro ads and intermediate ads. Maybe it was that one time? Because as soon as I disabled the extension I was ad free again. Maybe your experience was different, but that doesn't mean mine didn't happen.

It uses the existing FF container functionality, so uBlock should not be affected. I also use uBlock and haven't noticed anything bizarre. Maybe you just used YouTube right before a necessary update to uBlock's filters got loaded.

Regarding login, it's a struggle with any container addon. But I like how this one makes it easier. It streamlines it a bit because you can right click the page and go to Auto Containers -> Exclude tab from domain exclusions, then login as normal and add each intermediate domain to the container's URL patterns. It would be nice if the dev could add a way to record all intermediate domains and add them at the end; sometimes I miss one or two due to an auto-redirect.

When I added it, and went to Youtube, it instantly started generating tabs in some kind of loop ... had to shut FF down to stop it, and even then had to kill the loop manually.

That’s most probably a conflict with another extension…

https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/issues/347

https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/wiki/Autom...

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