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Re:Facebook Container for Firefox by neltnerb on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @08:07PM (#24853678)
I agree, your description is more why I like it -- the only websites that get to save any state are the ones I pick to open in specific named containers and which I also specifically granted permissions to with uMatrix (RIP).

Everything else opens links in a new container with the hope to make it as close as possible to looking like a different person clicked that link. I know it won't work that well since the IP doesn't change nor the user-agent, but at least it helps with the most lazy tracking.

Re:Facebook Container for Firefox by smichel17 on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @10:20PM (#24854309)
I share the same goals; thanks for the succinct description.

Discussion upthread made me interested to see whether I can route temporary containers through tor, to make this protection stronger — see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24853320

It's not super high on my list of priorities though, probably won't get to it for a month or two.

Re:Facebook Container for Firefox by neltnerb on Thursday October 22, 2020 @12:20AM (#24854840)
Oh, that'd be very neat if it made separate container tabs look like different tor sessions. Very clever! I suppose there's little short of that which would stand a real chance of working...