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A comment on Google Container for Firefox – Prevent Google from tracking you around the web. Parent comment

Re:Google Container for Firefox – Prevent Google from tracki... by deno on Friday November 30, 2018 @02:46PM (#18572018)
Let’s break it and have the browser handle auth flow itself.
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Re:Google Container for Firefox – Prevent Google from tracki... by jovial_cavalier on Friday November 30, 2018 @03:52PM (#18572521)
But then you have state shared between tabs and that breaks OPs whole idea, because it kills the sandboxing.
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Re:Google Container for Firefox – Prevent Google from tracki... by deno on Saturday December 01, 2018 @09:14AM (#18576831)
See BrowserID. It’s based on cryptographic proof and would work with any backend, including offline.
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