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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by SamuelAdams on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @02:21PM (#25920006)
Or enable private browsing all the time. You'll have to log into your accounts every time you open your browser, but that's not really a big deal with a decent password manager.

[1]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-clear-firefox-cache...

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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by skeletonjelly on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @05:53PM (#25921997)
Can you be tracked within the private browsing mode though? For instance in Chrome private tabs I know if you log in to something then open a new tab, that tab retains the cookies from the private session until you close all private tabs. Is this the same with Firefox? I'm hesitant to install yet another extension but I'm wondering if this one mentioned elsewhere in this thread will fix it, if it is the case with firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by legends2k on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @11:23AM (#25930132)
No, in Firefox I've seen each private window is a separate unrelated container.
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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by legends2k on Friday January 29, 2021 @12:29AM (#25954355)
Looks like I was wrong. All private windows and tabs belong to the same temporary container sharing cookies. Temporary Containers remedy this.

[1]: https://medium.com/@stoically/enhance-your-privacy-in-firefo...

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