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.
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.
Source: Facebook Container Extension
Wouldn't using a different Firefox profile have the same effect?
Don't get me wrong; this is a very good thing, but I am genuinely curious if using a different profile can achieve the same effect, although less convenient, since you'll have to keep switching to another profile every time you want to visit another website.
It's not necessary if you already have anti-tracker addons setup like privacybadger or umatrix.
Although sometimes those break websites until you go in and enable something, so this might be a decent recommendation for normies.
I'm sure Facebook will be able to figure out how to tie a container to a user's regular browsing session. If you take a look at Valve's Fingerprinting Library
https://github.com/Valve/fingerprintjs2
they have a ton of resources to establish a unique ID to a browser. I'm sure Facebook's fingerprinting ability is equal to or greater than that of Valve's.
What a useless PR stunt. Facebook, while the current face of privacy concerns, is one of millions doing similar things. And this measure will stop Facebook for all of, what, a week until their engineers push an update?
someone gonna make a chrome version?
Enabling 3rd party anti-tracking filters in ublock origin helps alot aswell.
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