I wonder what it would be like if there was a setting in Firefox that opened each website in it's own container without any faff. Firefox automatically creates the container for the website if it doesn't already exist and opens the website within it.

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

You can pretty much do this with Firefox. I'm on my phone but ublock origin can block 3rd party cookies and scripts. This breaks a lot of sites but it also lets you turn those back on, on a case-by-case basis. Plus various other Firefox settings.

[–] cron 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm no expert in this matter, but it's probably much more effective to tweak your firefox than clicking around in those cookie banners.

I personally like uMatrix, which offers granular control which sites can run scripts or set cookies. But it is clearly targeted at advanced users.

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Like Linux, I don't want it to be the hobby; I just want to use it. If every website opened in it's only container then there is no care about cookies because they can't track you across the web, nor can they try to steal others.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is uMatrix developed again? Because, since it didn't update webextension APIs, it got much less effective than uBlock Origin with a medium blocking setting.

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

It's not as far as I'm aware.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

I've only got superficial knowledge on this, but I believe Firefox does roughly that out of the box.

The feature that you're asking for is called "first-party isolation". It was implemented by the Tor Browser devs and upstreamed into Firefox, and it's what the whole Container technology foots upon. You can activate it in Firefox by setting privacy.firstparty.isolate in about:config to true.

But as I understand, Firefox now ships dynamic first-party isolation (dFPI) out of the box. Which is FPI, with a few exceptions to ensure web compatibility.
This is part of a wider effort called State Partitioning. And they market it to users as Total Cookie Protection. It's a bit confusing...

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That would be awesome.

Defaulting to "Private Browsing" achieves most of the desired effect, but I still have to switch to regular mode for sites I sign in to.

Needless to say, my technique is only effective because I'm a socoal pariah who doesn't sign into anything owned by Meta or Google.

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Your method would annoy me because of having to log in to websites 'all of the time' instead of allowing at least some to have persistent logins. Losing website preferences would also be annoying.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yep. That's another issue with it.

I "solve" (not really a solution) that by opening a new non-private tab just when visiting sites that I sign into.

It's certainly not perfect, even some places that I shop run crazy amounts of tracking.