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I'm a huge fan of Firefox's first party isolation (FPI) and using Containers to control Google. FPI kills trackers and Containers allow me to stay logged into certain Google services without having things like my search history tracked.



I was a huge fan too. I had a lot of containers set up on three different machines and they all got wiped out last week. I haven't put in all the work to rebuild them yet and I'm losing the wherewithal to keep putting up with Firefox.


Yeah I lost my main container last week as well.

Containers are okay, but, I wish they had their own database for things like saved passwords and addresses. I still end up using a separate profile for work, because I don't want _anything_ from work on my personal profile. Although, if entire container profiles can disappear with an update, that could be even more of a hassle.


I still don't understand why disabling the MAC extension nukes your settings where seemingly every other extension keeps its settings when toggled.

To be clear though, FPI is the real weapon here against things like Facebook tracking.




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