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Firefox 74 Slams Facebook In Solitary Confinement: Browser Add-On Stops Social Network Stalking Users Across the Web (theregister.co.uk) 16
When you visit Facebook and log in, the cookies it plants are isolated to the container. This prevents Facebook Like buttons and embedded comments from working on other sites. There is also an issue with sites that require or offer a Facebook login, which you can now overcome by adding those sites to the container. Sites are added by clicking a fence icon and selecting “Allow site in Facebook container.” The effect is like having two web browsers, one in which you are logged into Facebook and subject to potential tracking on any site which has Facebook content, and another where Facebook has no knowledge of you.
- It’s not just users of Facebook. They also collect shadow profiles of you based on various things, which you cannot prevent. Better to have a FB account that’s connected but unused than for them to create a shadow profile. Better yet, install this and make their profiling useless.
- The mental image of Zuckerberg being sent to The SHU made me smile.
- by bobstreo ( 1320787 ) on Thursday March 12, 2020 @06:46PM (#59824118)
I got 74 a couple days ago. I did actually gaze at the “New Features” from the release notes.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/… [mozilla.org]
Here is one new feature that may bork things up a bit for some sites:
“We have disabled TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 to improve your website connections. Sites that don’t support TLS version 1.2 will now show an error page.”
The insecurity of 1.0 and 1.1 have been well-known for ages now. Any company whose engineering team have been asleep at the wheel that whole time, is probably one to which you ought not to entrust your data anyway. Hell, my own employer is 1.2-only at the server side.
What? Your employer hasn’t switched to 1.3 yet? Get with the times! How can anyone trust you?
- Yes its powerful and fun with a nice GUI.
Set “Strict” in “Privacy and Security” in FF 75.
Click on the Protections list for a website and read all about the tracking content, fingerprints, social media trackers… if used. You can turn that back on easily enough. All they did was change the defaults for the min/max TLS version and add a new “harrass me” page setting. The changes had no effect if you had already set those options to a specific value rather than being “default”.
Am I safe?? o_O
- Install Privacy Badger from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and you will find out that – even if you don’t use Facebook – you are not completely safe from Facebook’s tracking. https://www.eff.org/privacybad… [eff.org]
- by xushi ( 740195 )
Woah, I owe you a pint! Cheers.
Have Firefox 74.
Have no prompt/popup/whatever about no Facebook Container.Clearly this article is wrong.
Or do I just have too much security and the attacks are being repelled?
- by Sebby ( 238625 )
Have Firefox 74. Have no prompt/popup/whatever about no Facebook Container.
I upgraded yesterday – I vaguely remember seeing something about ‘Facebook’ in one of the tabs I had open, but since I’m always “fuck that FB shit” whenever I see reference(s) to it, I didn’t pay any attention to what I saw.
I think what ended up happening in my case is that on relaunch after the updating, FF simply reopened all my existing tabs, and I just happened to quickly notice the one about FB container it probably added while I was cleaning them up (probably thinking it was spam add from a site).
It did not add any “Facebook Container” add-in either. If it did, I would have noticed and removed it as “unauthorized malware”.
If by “prompt” they mean “silly clickable crap” on the useless “Welcome to Firefox” tab/page of useless shit that I always just close without even bothering to look at (since it is completely useless and information free). The only way to see what unauthorized changes / useless additions Mozilla made with each update is by scanning the configuration for changes.
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