Mozilla's update comes in the wake of Facebook's scandal with Cambridge Anaytica, where at least 50 million Facebook users had their personal data used without their direct consent. Mozilla noted in the blog post that websites that allowed a user to create an account and log-in through Facebook will not work properly within the Facebook Container. The extension is far from a perfect solution. This code tracks you invisibly and it is often impossible to determine when this data is being shared. There’s enormous value in tying this data to your social profile, and Facebook has a network of trackers on various websites. They can infer where you live, the hobbies you have, and your political persuasion. The pages you visit on the web can say a lot about you.

The hope is that someone searching for and booking a trip wouldn't then cause related ads to appear on your Facebook feed, for example, without having to go ahead and delete Facebook altogether. Mozilla pulls ads from Facebook until Zuck makes goodĪ new browser extension called the ' Facebook Container' lets Firefox users isolate their activity on Facebook to, making it more difficult to track users' actions elsewhere on the web.

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