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Re:Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re ... by groovecoder on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @02:03PM (#16691116)
Disclosure: I'm the author of the add-on mentioned in the story.

Basically, various privacy protections cause various kinds of website breakage.

https://blog.mozilla.org/data/2018/01/26/improving-privacy-w...

Re:Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re ... by billysielu on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @02:37PM (#16691477)
Oh hey, love your work mate. Thank you!
Re:Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re ... by groovecoder on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @04:16PM (#16692321)
My pleasure ... but it's not just my work. Firefox privacy & security and add-ons engineering teams have poured a ton of effort into Firefox Quantum to make features like this possible and easy.
Re:Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re ... by peteretep on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @12:40AM (#16695328)
How easy is this to extend to other sites? LinkedIn and Google, specifically?
Re:Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re ... by cuckcuckspruce on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @02:23PM (#16691332)
Then those websites should be considered broken much like we consider Adobe Flash and sites with invalid TLS certificates.
Re:Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re ... by groovecoder on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @04:17PM (#16692334)
I really like that perspective! A few more high-profile cases like this and we just might nudge the internet in this direction! :)
Re:Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re ... by scrollaway on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @04:46PM (#16692574)
Yes please. Third party cookies and the like are the plague. They have so few legitimate use cases.

Make it a long deprecation if you have to. Give even longer exemptions to the really big players / the big breakage / the legitimate use cases while we find better ways. But it is up to the browser vendors to remove the weapons here.

Re:Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re ... by chopin on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @05:42AM (#16696533)
Unfortunately, OAuth relies on them. Many SaaS offerings rely on OAuth.
Re:Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re ... by scrollaway on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @02:18PM (#16700302)
SAML and some oauth flavors do, but most of oauth does not.
Re:Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re ... by rb12345 on Thursday March 29, 2018 @04:58PM (#16710962)
I don't think OAuth requires third-party cookies, and SAML definitely does not. The authentication parts use HTTP POSTs or redirects from the IdP to SP. You probably do want cookies to track the sessions on each end, but those would be first-party.

It's possible for your IdP to track the SPs you authenticate to regardless of protocol or cookie use, of course.

Re:Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re ... by kuschku on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @02:54PM (#16691629)
The problem is that basically all of Google’s products would be affected, which is something no browser can easily ship without angering users.
Re:Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re ... by ballenf on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @04:21PM (#16692375)
Can you elaborate? Is there some reason that running every Google property except google search (unless desired, but I prefer non-tailored results) in one container wouldn't work?
Re:Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re ... by JetSpiegel on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @07:12PM (#16693681)
In that case each origin is not really getting an isolated cookie jar.
Re:Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re ... by billysielu on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @02:27PM (#16691374)
Agreed. There are good kinds of broken.