Facebook Container
This extension helps you control more of your web activity from Facebook by isolating your identity into a separate container.
- Free • Open Source
- Online
- Firefox
What is Facebook Container?
Facebook Container works by isolating your Facebook identity into a separate container that makes it harder for Facebook to track your visits to other websites with third-party cookies. Rather than stop using a service you find valuable, we think you should have tools to limit what data others can obtain. This extension focuses on limiting Facebook tracking, but other ad networks may try to correlate your Facebook activities with your regular browsing. In addition to this extension, you can change your Facebook settings, use Private Browsing, enable Tracking Protection, block third-party cookies, and/or use Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension to further limit tracking.
How does it work? Installing this extension deletes your Facebook cookies and logs you out of Facebook. The next time you navigate to Facebook it will load in a new blue colored browser tab (the “Container”). You can log in and use Facebook normally when in the Facebook Container. 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. Clicking Facebook Share buttons on other browser tabs will load them within the Facebook Container. You should know that using these buttons passes information to Facebook about the website that you shared from. Which website features will not function? 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.
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- Developed byMozilla
- LicensingOpen Source (MPL-2.0) and Free product.
- Written in
- Alternatives7 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
GitHub repository
- 917 Stars
- 175 Forks
- 286 Open Issues
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Tags
- Privacy Tool
- browser-isolation
- Privacy Protection
- container-isolation-hardening
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