Re:Facebook Container for Firefox
by hannibalhorn on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @07:21PM
(#24853377)
tor provides a socks proxy, which you can assign to a container easy enough w/ the container proxy addon.
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Though you won't get stream isolation this way https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Stream_Isolation
Does FF send DNS requests via the proxy? Depending on the personal threat model and the ISP, that might matter.
Re:Facebook Container for Firefox
by TheFlyingFish on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @11:27PM
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FF defaults to DNS-over-HTTPS now, so I would imagine it does, although I can't find solid confirmation.
Only in the US.
Re:Facebook Container for Firefox
by Liquid_Fire on Thursday October 22, 2020 @08:56AM
(#24857479)
There are checkboxes to control this in the Firefox proxy settings. "Proxy DNS when using SOCKS v5" and "Enable DNS over HTTPS".
Re:Facebook Container for Firefox
by computerfriend on Thursday October 22, 2020 @11:40AM
(#24859188)
In the proxy options, there's a box to tick for sending DNS through the proxy or not.
Thank you, I'll look in to this!
Re:Facebook Container for Firefox
by breakingcups on Thursday October 22, 2020 @03:16AM
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Be careful doing this though, there's a reason Tor Browser exists and it is because it's very hard to do anonimity over Tor right on a default browser.
Granted, Tor tries to upstream as much as it reasonably can to FF, but there's still large differences in defaults that could give away (some bits of) your identity.
See this comment first, not mine but might as well be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24853678
It's all baby steps. I don't expect to be fully anonymous this way, just like I know my current setup does not foil more sophisticated tracking.