{"id":20992,"date":"2018-03-29T16:50:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T20:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=20992"},"modified":"2018-03-30T15:42:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T19:42:47","slug":"firefoxs-facebook-container","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/29\/firefoxs-facebook-container\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox&rsquo;s Facebook Container"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/27\/facebook-container-add-on\/\">Nick Nguyen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/27\/facebook-container-add-on\/\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/facebook-container\/\">Facebook Container<\/a> isolates your Facebook identity from the rest of your web activity. When you install it, you will continue to be able to use Facebook normally. Facebook can continue to deliver their service to you and send you advertising. The difference is that it will be much harder for Facebook to use your activity collected <b>off Facebook<\/b> to send you ads and other targeted messages.<\/p>\n<p>This Add-On offers a solution that doesn&rsquo;t tell users to simply stop using a service that they get value from. Instead, it gives users tools that help them protect themselves from the unexpected side effects of their usage.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/facebook-container\/\">Mozilla<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/facebook-container\/\"><p>Because you will be logged into Facebook only in the Container, embedded Facebook comments and Like buttons in tabs outside the Facebook Container will not work. This prevents Facebook from associating information about your activity on websites outside of Facebook to your Facebook identity.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, websites that allow you to create an account or log in using your Facebook credentials will generally not work properly. Because this extension is designed to separate Facebook use from use of other websites, this behavior is expected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve love to see this sort of thing for more sites and in more browsers.<\/p>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/19\/cambridge-analytica-harvested-50-million-facebook-profiles\/\">Cambridge Analytica Harvested 50 Million Facebook Profiles<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Update (2018-03-30): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrendanEich\/status\/978718453019287552\">Brendan Eich<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrendanEich\/status\/978718453019287552\"><p>With @Brave you do not need an &ldquo;extension that isolates your Facebook identity from the rest of your web activity&rdquo; -- we block all trackers <em>by default<\/em>, including FB&rsquo;s. The real consistency+courage test would be to do the same to Google&rsquo;s trackers.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Nguyen: Facebook Container isolates your Facebook identity from the rest of your web activity. When you install it, you will continue to be able to use Facebook normally. Facebook can continue to deliver their service to you and send you advertising. 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