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Facebook Container Addon

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habbajabba

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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container/
This extension helps you control more of your web activity from Facebook by isolating your identity into a separate container. This makes it harder for Facebook to track your activity on other websites via third-party cookies.

Rather than not using a service you find valuable and miss out on those adorable photos of your nephew, we think you should have tools to limit what data others can collect about you. That includes us: Mozilla does not collect data from your use of the Facebook Container extension. We only know the number of times the extension is installed or removed.

When you install this extension it will delete your Facebook cookies and log you out of Facebook. The next time you visit Facebook it will open in a new blue-colored browser tab (aka “container tab”). In that tab you can login to Facebook and use it like you normally would. If you click on a non-Facebook link or navigate to a non-Facebook website in the URL bar, these pages will load outside of the container.
https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/facebook-container-extension/
Not sure how relevant it is if you don't use facebook but thought it a great security measure against pests that control the site itself.
 
wish something like this was available on mobile, but really cool nonetheless
 
Doesn't add any value if you're already using uMatrix and uBlock. Also make sure to disable hyperlink auditing ("ping" in Firefox) so they can't track your outbound clicks away.
 
Waterfox was a native 64 bit version of the Mozilla engine before there was such a thing elsewhere. I think there is a 64 bit FF now, and Pale Moon and others. I liked Pale Moon a lot, too.
 
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