Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Being Facebook member: How to anon?

[Nils Freydank <nils.freydank@posteo.de>]

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Am Montag, 23. Oktober 2017, 18:45:18 CEST schrieb Mick:
> On Monday, 23 October 2017 16:56:40 BST tuxic@posteo.de wrote:
> > On 10/23 09:56, Stroller wrote:
> > > > On 22 Oct 2017, at 16:50, tuxic@posteo.de wrote:
> > > > 
> [...] 
> Perhaps I'm missing something, but isn't using a new vanilla FF profile as
> good as it needs to be to protect your privacy in this use case?  Facebook
> will not be able to collect cookies from your previous life or anything
> else, because this will be a new fresh profile.  Store it on /tmp/Facebook/
> and it will be cleared out next time you reboot.  Fingerprinting will show
> a new FF vanilla profile, your OS, etc., but I guess this is innocuous
> enough.  It goes without saying you should not use Adobe Flash.  If you do
> 'rm -Rf ~/.adobe/ Flash_Player/' before and after.
> [...]
Hi, I add using firefox --new-instance --profile[…] with firejail just to 
block firefox’ legitimate[1] access to ~. It could still read the whole 
~/.mozilla with the default profile, but even that can be restricted with
some tweaking.

As far as I understand facebook’s major business model is to gather 
information that were more or less willingly uploaded, at least not through an 
exploit in classical sense. Breaking out of firejail through X is possible 
[citation needed..], but I hope that facebook’s manager think it would push 
users away.

In general, I don’t know what a custom user agent, and disabling general 
privacy threatening stuff[2] in firefox does for good, as most of it would 
just be useful to identify you *again* - a thing that you already provide 
yourself by logging in.

[1] This might be discussable at all as webbrowsers are quite complex 
nowadays, but this leads to a whole new discussion.

[2] https://privacytools.io is a neat site with much information about e.g. 
firefox’ modifications to disable stuff like JS battery status information. 
Yep, that exists :)
https://www.privacytools.io/#about_config should link directly to the specific 
subsection.


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