Check the facebook conrainer app for firefox
this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2025
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Pro tips, ty! I was hoping for something mobile friendly but this will definitely help!
First of all, figure out your threat model. What data are you trying to keep secret from Facebook? What will happen to you if Facebook gets that data? What lengths are reasonable to prevent that outcome?
Then figure out how to consistently prevent that data from leaking.
I don't want Facebook knowing my address, name, age, and face - basically I don't want to be doxxed. I'm not willing to go through the effort of hiding my IP, so I'm willing to give up on that, but the others are easy enough to lie about.
The assumption that there is only one kind of threat model relevant to a person / business is a bad assumption.
If you have different threat models for different data, then you should enumerate them and work through each.
Heh. I explicitly DON'T and I feel it's those businesses and people's problem. There are other methods. Not everyone uses Facebook.
I refuse.
Facebook has ghost profiles of non Facebook users because of tracking embedded in βlikeβ buttons on websites. If you wanted to go full paranoid I would suggest using an extension to change your user agent. But it is probably worth identifying the specific threat vectors you are concerned about.
i'd probably opt for a cheap android tablet that's only used for fb, nothing else.
and in 'full paranoid' mode, i'd also avoid using my own home or work wifi with it, too. the library's public hotspot is convenient enough to both locations.
This.
Probably the best strategy to minimise risk from data pilfering.
Don't use any real data and do as little as possible, but that strongly depends on the level of interacting you want to do.
Use a different browser profile entirely. I'd also reccomend LibreWolf because there's better fingerprinting protection, to help stop them from connecting dots between your other browser profiles.
This is extremely relevant to me as well.
I need even less interaction than most. I just need to check a private group I'm part of for events. Any way to extract that info into something else nicely?
I see the recommendations for FBPurity and the Firefox container, both of which I'll use on desktop. I was hoping for something for mobile too but just desktop is probably fine
I haven't used it but Firefox has containers to allow you to separate your browsing activities which are isolated from each other. You need to install the Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension in order to use them.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/
Maybe a throwaway email address and use TAILS as an anonymiser which also manages the cookie cleanup. Every network session is a new clean invocation.
Does Facebook still have an official onion url?
What would make you unsafe? What data do you want to keep away from Facebook?
Maybe safe is the wrong word in my post. I mean keeping the data safe from meta in the respect that I don't want them to have it. Their record in data privacy is not so great so I'm keen to keep my data away from Meta if I can.
What specific data?
You canβt keep information you put on their platform or your habits of use on that platform βsafeβ from it.