Google Container by containers-everywhere
THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL ADDON FROM MOZILLA!
It is a fork of the Facebook Container addon.
Prevent Google from tracking you around the web. The Google Container extension helps you take control and isolate your web activity from Google.
You'll need Firefox to use this extension
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About this extension
THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL ADDON FROM MOZILLA! It is a fork of the Facebook Container addon.
What does it do?
Google Container works by isolating your Google identity into a separate container that makes it harder for Google to track your visits to other websites with third-party cookies.
How does it work?
Installing this extension deletes your Google cookies and logs you out of Google.
The next time you navigate to Google it will load in a new red colored browser tab (the “Container”).
You can log in and use Google normally when in the Google Container. If you click on a non-Google link or navigate to a non-Google website in the URL bar, these pages will load outside of the container.
Clicking Google Share buttons on other browser tabs will load them within the Google Container. You should know that using these buttons passes information to Google about the website that you shared from.
Which website features will not function?
Because you will be logged into Google only in the Container, embedded Google comments and Like buttons in tabs outside the Google Container will not work. This prevents Google from associating information about your activity on websites outside of Google to your Google identity.
In addition, websites that allow you to create an account or log in using your Google credentials will generally not work properly. Because this extension is designed to separate Google use from use of other websites, this behavior is expected.
What does Google Container NOT protect against?
It is important to know that this extension doesn’t prevent Google from mishandling the data that it already has, or permitted others to obtain, about you. Google still will have access to everything that you do while you are on google.com.
Rather than stop using a service you find valuable, we think you should have tools to limit what data others can obtain. This extension focuses on limiting Google tracking, but other ad networks may try to correlate your Google activities with your regular browsing. In addition to this extension, you can change your Google settings, use Private Browsing, enable Tracking Protection, block third-party cookies, and/or use Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension to further limit tracking.
We do never collect any data, all the data we see, you see.
Other Containers
Google Container leverages the Containers feature that is already built in to Firefox. When you enable Google Container, you may also see Containers named Personal, Work, Shopping, and Banking while you browse. If you wish to use multiple Containers, you’ll have the best user experience if you install the Firefox Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension. You should also check out Temporary Containers .
NOTE: If you are a Firefox Multi-Account Containers user who has already assigned Google to a Container, this extension will not work. In an effort to preserve your existing Container set up and logins, this add-on will not include the additional protection to keep other sites out of your Google Container. If you would like this additional protection, first unassign google.com in the Multi-Account Container extension, and then install this extension.
Recommended privacy enhancing Add-ons
What does it do?
Google Container works by isolating your Google identity into a separate container that makes it harder for Google to track your visits to other websites with third-party cookies.
How does it work?
Installing this extension deletes your Google cookies and logs you out of Google.
The next time you navigate to Google it will load in a new red colored browser tab (the “Container”).
You can log in and use Google normally when in the Google Container. If you click on a non-Google link or navigate to a non-Google website in the URL bar, these pages will load outside of the container.
Clicking Google Share buttons on other browser tabs will load them within the Google Container. You should know that using these buttons passes information to Google about the website that you shared from.
Which website features will not function?
Because you will be logged into Google only in the Container, embedded Google comments and Like buttons in tabs outside the Google Container will not work. This prevents Google from associating information about your activity on websites outside of Google to your Google identity.
In addition, websites that allow you to create an account or log in using your Google credentials will generally not work properly. Because this extension is designed to separate Google use from use of other websites, this behavior is expected.
What does Google Container NOT protect against?
It is important to know that this extension doesn’t prevent Google from mishandling the data that it already has, or permitted others to obtain, about you. Google still will have access to everything that you do while you are on google.com.
Rather than stop using a service you find valuable, we think you should have tools to limit what data others can obtain. This extension focuses on limiting Google tracking, but other ad networks may try to correlate your Google activities with your regular browsing. In addition to this extension, you can change your Google settings, use Private Browsing, enable Tracking Protection, block third-party cookies, and/or use Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension to further limit tracking.
We do never collect any data, all the data we see, you see.
Other Containers
Google Container leverages the Containers feature that is already built in to Firefox. When you enable Google Container, you may also see Containers named Personal, Work, Shopping, and Banking while you browse. If you wish to use multiple Containers, you’ll have the best user experience if you install the Firefox Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension. You should also check out Temporary Containers .
NOTE: If you are a Firefox Multi-Account Containers user who has already assigned Google to a Container, this extension will not work. In an effort to preserve your existing Container set up and logins, this add-on will not include the additional protection to keep other sites out of your Google Container. If you would like this additional protection, first unassign google.com in the Multi-Account Container extension, and then install this extension.
Recommended privacy enhancing Add-ons
- Decentraleyes: Protects you against tracking through “free”, centralized, content delivery by automatically injecting local resources if possible.
- Don’t track me google : If your search-engine of choice happens to be Google this Add-on will remove the tracking automatically placed on result-links. Or just use startpage.com instead.
- HTTPS Everywhere: Automatically redirects you to the secure version of websites if available.
- Request Control: Lets you filter session, ref, utm and more query parameters from URLs and can also circumvent outgoing trackers on websites
- uBlock Origin I guess you already know this one. If not, check it out.
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- Monitor extension usage and manage themes
- Access browser tabs
- Access your data for all websites
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- Version
- 1.5.4
- Size
- 26.16 KB
- Last updated
- 4 years ago (Mar 3, 2021)
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- License
- Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Release notes for 1.5.4
57adc83d4b5ac3ba201c0da98c9ba0ed17019452 1.5.4
5fb66dd983dbc6a7662882e738d64edd75683547 Merge pull request #114 from situplastik/master
5c0d656a926806cc1796d001f69f077272680803 Fix: invalid domain won't clear the list
bfd505e5329561d79095ad72d8f8e56c60c1b3ed Merge pull request #115 from 1ceb3rg/master
fabee50aa7b63fa2598711346034e79fd1db513d update domain list
a4bfa291e452544ee8817d7b6af6c33697143eb8 Fix: change explanation texts
e5215e15d521f892e1f82c6ae10691c1cba60342 Fix: intention in options
9f1ef6a1c04f4e01a1004982fa7913b805f413d1 Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/situplastik/contain-google
cdf685042a12366cb17f0eabefdbbf7c12b1c1ff Review: Clarify allowlist and whitelist text
71e4609eb6d0e44dc357d805bd8502465b17012d Clarify allowlist and whitelist text
5f301870c878da260961b53b4e522ea404ee0859 Fix: allowListed first check as isGoogleURL & edit order & description of preferences
24f88bcd32961c42e2f1678fad779d8fa5525df0 Fix: amount of spaces/tabs
225329ccd32282e0bffd43f531f3d3815803ee9b Chore: add allowlist on preferences
5fb66dd983dbc6a7662882e738d64edd75683547 Merge pull request #114 from situplastik/master
5c0d656a926806cc1796d001f69f077272680803 Fix: invalid domain won't clear the list
bfd505e5329561d79095ad72d8f8e56c60c1b3ed Merge pull request #115 from 1ceb3rg/master
fabee50aa7b63fa2598711346034e79fd1db513d update domain list
a4bfa291e452544ee8817d7b6af6c33697143eb8 Fix: change explanation texts
e5215e15d521f892e1f82c6ae10691c1cba60342 Fix: intention in options
9f1ef6a1c04f4e01a1004982fa7913b805f413d1 Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/situplastik/contain-google
cdf685042a12366cb17f0eabefdbbf7c12b1c1ff Review: Clarify allowlist and whitelist text
71e4609eb6d0e44dc357d805bd8502465b17012d Clarify allowlist and whitelist text
5f301870c878da260961b53b4e522ea404ee0859 Fix: allowListed first check as isGoogleURL & edit order & description of preferences
24f88bcd32961c42e2f1678fad779d8fa5525df0 Fix: amount of spaces/tabs
225329ccd32282e0bffd43f531f3d3815803ee9b Chore: add allowlist on preferences
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