FacebookContainerExtension

Mozilla released two years ago Facebook Container, a Firefox addon that prevent Facebook from tracking you around the web. The Facebook Container extension for Firefox helps you take control and isolate your web activity from Facebook (Which they are definitely doing even if you don’t have an account). The addon have been just updated to add 27 new locales.

Facebook Container works by isolating your Facebook identity into a separate container that makes it harder for Facebook to track your visits to other websites with third-party cookies.

There are some limitations of using this Addon, because you will be logged into Facebook only in the Container, embedded Facebook comments and Like buttons in tabs outside the Facebook Container will not work. This prevents Facebook from associating information about your activity on websites outside of Facebook to your Facebook identity.

In addition, websites that allow you to create an account or log in using your Facebook credentials will generally not work properly. Because this extension is designed to separate Facebook use from use of other websites, this behavior is expected.

Notice that it is important to know that this extension doesn’t prevent Facebook from mishandling the data that it already has, or permitted others to obtain, about you. Facebook still will have access to everything that you do while you are on facebook website, including your Facebook comments, photo uploads, likes, any data you share with Facebook connected apps, etc.

If you care about your privacy, this extension will help protect you from facebook. You can also change your Facebook settings, use Private Browsing, enable Tracking Protection, block third-party cookies, and/or use Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension to further limit tracking.

Mozilla does not collect data from your use of the Facebook Container extension. they do receive only the number of times the extension is installed or removed.

Few issue should be noted if you will be using Facebook container addon, when Facebook is open and you navigate to another website using the same tab (by entering an address, doing a search, or clicking a bookmark), the new website will be loaded outside of the Container and you will not be able to navigate back to Facebook using the back button in the browser.

This extension works with Firefox 57 and higher on Desktop. Note that it does not work on other browsers and it does not work on Firefox for mobile.

More information and install : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container/

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