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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by tomjen3 on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @03:44PM (#25920826)
Sites can set as many cookies as they want. I have installed temporary containers (that is a Firefox only feature sadly), 15 minutes after I close the last tab in that group all those cookies are automatically deleted.

Each tab group then has its own cookie container, so I can have multiple groups open and they don't share anything - I can login to different google (or any other service) accounts in different contains and it works like I want it to.

For the sites that I want to use logged in, I either create a special container for that site only, or I just use a password manager to log me in each time I need to visit it.

The added privacy is great, the peace of mind in just clicking I agree is great.

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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by novaRom on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @03:54PM (#25920931)
How do you circumvent browser fingerprinting? If every container has the same user agent, canvas, screen resolution, JS benchmark test results, etc. then no matter what but you are uniquely identified, bingo!

I really feel today having different devices with different browsers, connected to different providers is only working solution.

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