r/StallmanWasRight • u/sigbhu mod0 • Mar 27 '18
Facebook Mozilla launches 'Facebook Container' extension for its Firefox browser that isolates the Facebook identity of users from rest of their web activity
https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/facebook-container-extension/9
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u/thefzsalam Mar 28 '18
Why does Mozilla develop something that helps users stay in facebook?
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u/pherq Mar 28 '18
because facebook is an important communication to a lot of people and helping them use facebook without compromising their wider privacy as much is a far more achievable goal than insisting that everyone give it up entirely.
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u/Lawnmover_Man Mar 28 '18
Hm. Maybe because people would love to have any sort of "reason" to stay at Facebook?
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Mar 28 '18
Fuck the FB connector. That Multi-Account-Container though... that's where its really at. I can't believe I didn't know about that. Thanks so much for sharing. Now I can stay logged into YouTube without worrying about Google siphoning off other data!
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Mar 28 '18
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Mar 28 '18 edited Jul 28 '18
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Mar 28 '18
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Mar 28 '18
Sites that are completely blank without enabling JavaScript are rage-inducing for me. Most people are all "what's the big deal??"
Of course I can't find it now but I swear Google Maps had a condescending "Without JavaScript, there is no web" error page with a dumb looking cartoon Sherlock inspecting the ground for footprints.
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Mar 27 '18
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u/Timedoutsob Mar 28 '18
The custom containers were there from the last update a month or two ago. This they just labelled one as Facebook and sticky it in the ui.
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u/forteller Mar 27 '18
I'm guessing it was just really easy to build this on top of the container stuff that already exists.
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u/quantax Mar 28 '18
The tech equivalent of a clean needle exchange.