Apart from signing into multiple accounts or isolating pages under the same domain, is there any advantage to using Firefox containers from a security standpoint or do you think that Total Cookie Protection is sufficient for most use cases / threat models?
For when you have multiple accounts, yes.
I switched from containers to total cookie protection just for quality of life. It takes a lot less micromanagement of settings and still provides strong protection. I’ve not looked back since, and yes, I think it’s more than sufficient for most people.
I went from temp containers with cookie auto delete to just containers and assuming total cookie protection is enabled and doing its thing. The temp containers would frequently mess important processes such as payments (different domain/container/new cookies/session)
What’s total cookie protection?
I just installed containers and doesn’t seem to take any micromanagement. You can set it to automatically open certain URLs in certain containers.
Nowadays cookies are becoming obsolete in the fingerprint process (of the users) then the major utility of containers will become obsolete too, in my opinion.
What is the new cool boy of the tracking systems?
This is pretty scary. A cross-app method that uses manufacturing imperfections in RAM.
But that would be illegal (at least in Europe), as user must agrees om being tracked
The enshittification will continue and you will like it - tech company attitudes
Wow, first I’ve seen of this. Pretty scary.
This is very sick source! thank you…
Damn. Does using a VM affect this process?
cookies are just a tiny fraction of the whole picture of fingerprint process. The ad companies use your browser agent, IP address, cookies, Canvas, timezone screen size and many others pieces to create a unique identifier that match almost exclusively to you. It’s pretty scary. But the new cool boy of course will be WEI.
One thing that is really handy for development is that you can set up any container to use a proxy server. I use that a lot to reduce the sheer amount of crap that would get sent to the proxy if it were enabled at the system level or in the regular browser network settings. It really keeps the noise down.
Anything that is Facebook/Meta is in its own container for me. That way they can “track” as much as they want, they won’t see new or even accurate Info.
They would be much more useful if we had per container, fine grain cookie exceptions, read this https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/cookies-improvement-meta-discussion/m-p/34997
I thought cookie auto delete does that for you? It can be configured on a per-container basis.
As far as I know it deletes every cookie or none of them ?
I’ve had mine set up since launch and it works great. got certain types of sites/browsing dedicated to certain containers, along with cookie autodelete (it respects containers so can have settings per container) to delete cookies unless i whitelist a site.
I rarely use the containers. Instead I prefer to seperate activities with different versions of firefox. I use Firefox ESR for normal browsing, Firefox for VPN browsing and Firefox Dev/Chromium for school. I also use a different color scheme on each firefox so I do not confuse them.
Wouldn’t that be more work? If there will be a setting to change, an add-on to install or a bookmark to add you will need to repeat it multiple times
you can use profile manager to do what exactly are you doing. without install multiple version of firefox
I use it for YouTube. I have a throwaway account that I only use for my subscriptions. Dont use any other Google things, so I am signed out outside of that container.
Absolutely, you could have a container with a cookie exception for a site and always stay logged in while not being tracked trought your whole browser
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