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Re:Facebook Container for Firefox by pkulak on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @01:31PM (#24850091)
Oh wow. I used containers for a while, but the official plugin for managing them was awful. You had to go to the site, set the container, then click an approve button the _next_ time you went to it. Took forever to get things set up, and it never synced the settings despite claiming it would. I'm going to give this one a try. Thanks!
Re:Facebook Container for Firefox by Mandatum on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @04:34PM (#24851865)
> but the official plugin for managing them was awful

I wish we'd stop being so hard on products. It's likely those developers read these comments. Having babies be called ugly by your peers is rough, actively trying to be more respectful on the internet leads to a nicer industry.

EDIT: Just to clarify - I'm not saying your intention was disrespectful. I've written many comments similar to this, and continue to do so, but I've started to try and curb it because I imagine it's what YouTubers feel like reading their comments section.. But this is by our own peers in our industry.

Re:Facebook Container for Firefox by sumedh on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @09:42PM (#24854133)
They should not take it personally. The UX/dev people at Firefox should take that as a constructive criticism.
Re:Facebook Container for Firefox by jhrmnn on Thursday October 22, 2020 @03:41AM (#24855753)
Since when is constructive criticism expressed in words like “awful”?
Re:Facebook Container for Firefox by sumedh on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:44AM (#24868043)
You should take be asking the question why are the users using words like "awful"
Re:Facebook Container for Firefox by utucuro on Thursday October 22, 2020 @07:01AM (#24856734)
I was quite frustrated by this as well, but then I remembered that the design goal of the extension is allowing logging into the same service with multiple accounts, not isolating services from each other. That is why the secondary functionality, the possibility of isolating tech fiefdoms, is less polished. It's not the main show, it's just a happy side effect.

Containerise and Cookie Autodelete together are indeed a very good addition to uBlock and uMatrix, and if you already have some Regular Expression classification rules written for Cookie Autodelete, setting up Containerise is very quick. It works like a charm even with the Firefox Multi Account Containers extension itself disabled.