How do i stop Facebook, when open in Firefox, from tracking me around the web?

[j...@comcast.com]

Seems i recall that Firefox has a built in or addon method of stopping
facebook -- when open in another tab(s) of a session -- from tracking you
around the web...

I need a "how-to" on that.

jim

[😉 Good Guy 😉]

If you are not using facebook and not interested in anything on facebook then simply block it in your host file.

Open your hosts file and paste this in it:

127.0.0.1  facebook.com

facebook, like other major IT companies, have many other websites doing other things like ads, cdn etc etc so you need to track all of them one by one to block them.  I have given up keeping track of them because they have full-time staff doing different things everyday to sell their products while I have a full-time job to put food on a plate!

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[WaltS48]

Install the Facebook Container extension.

<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container/>

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[j...@comcast.com]

On Wed, 6 May 2020 18:08:25 -0400, WaltS48 <wal...@invalid.net> in
mozilla.support.firefox wrote:

>On 5/6/20 5:35 PM, j...@comcast.com wrote:
>>
>>
>> Seems i recall that Firefox has a built in or addon method of stopping
>> facebook -- when open in another tab(s) of a session -- from tracking you
>> around the web...
>>
>> I need a "how-to" on that.
>>
>> jim
>>
>
>Install the Facebook Container extension.
>
><https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container/>

Thanks, Walt.
I felt that i had read somewhere that Firefox could stop them from
tracking you outside the app but at the time it was not meaningful to me.

jim

[R.Wieser]

Jim,

> Seems i recall that Firefox has a built in or addon method of
> stopping facebook -- when open in another tab(s) of a session --
> from tracking you around the web...

I'm using the RequestPolicy plugin myself. By default it blocks /all/
third-party content*, so no matter who-or-what tries to track me (and
believe me, FB is not the only one) is outof luck. :-)

*it takes just two clicks to add third-party websites to a global or
for-this-website-only whitelist - for this session only, or permanent.
Removing that permission goes as easy.

Caveat:
I'm still using a version of FF which accepts old-style plugins, I've got no
idea if RequestPolicy is still available for the new FF versions.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser