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ape4
The only addon I use
fsflover
Facebook is not the only evil site on the Internet. I recommend PrivacyBadger in addition to defend from many other trackers.
dna_polymerase
Personally, I prefer just blocking all Facebook assets on DNS level. Don't forget, they go to war against Apple because Apple wants to force user consent on their tracking activities. They should be ousted from everyone's network.
Kye
Not everyone has the luxury of going nuclear with it. Containment works for people whose governments are too cheap for a blog.
blowski
Exactly.

My son's school has been using Facebook for most communications. I discussed it with their IT person - they said it was mostly a trade-off between security, privacy, usability, and cost. Most parents didn't care much about privacy, so Facebook won.

It's frustrating for those of us that do care about privacy, but I can see why it's such a difficult decision.

IgorPartola
FB Marketplace is legitimately more useful than any other classifieds system available or in the US. Otherwise I would do the same.
milofeynman
That's a short term solution with DoH becoming more widespread... I'm curious how we're going to block DoH in the future since it can be packed into any iot device
maztaim
I prefer https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account....
tunnuz
Same, been using for about a year and love them.
bko
I've been using privacy badger [0] and ublock. Is this containarization still something I need to worry about?

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-badge...

ruined
yes. containerization allows you to segregate your browsing sessions even when necessary page functionality includes code/assets from entities that would use that inclusion to track. think of it as minimizing your surface area. temporary containers in particular are like a fresh session in every tab.

i combine containers with noscript, ublock, and decentraleyes.

evad3r
You can literally use the two hand in hand. You don't have to use one or the other.
hertzrat
Since you can’t use addons with Firefox mobile, how is the browser compared to brave or safari for privacy and ad blocking?
JohnTHaller
Firefox on Android works with uBlock, Ghostery, Privacy Badger, NoScript, HTTPS Everywhere, etc. On iOS, you're stuck with Safari on at least some level anyway, so may as well stick with Safari.
bilkow
This, and AFAIK they're still implementing the rest of the API so that all add-ons will be supported (on Android).
dragosmocrii
For mobile, I recommend Blokada. I recommend using the v4 due to being more stable and resource efficient.
scrose
I’ve always used Ublock and Pihole with a DNS blocklist set for any Facebook domain, but now I’m wondering if there is anything I might not be catching that this would?