Article 5VQ3F Firefox’s anti-tracking feature adds per-account VPN for more privacy

Firefox’s anti-tracking feature adds per-account VPN for more privacy

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Emma Roth
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Mozilla is combining its Multi-Account Containers add-on with its VPN service, which lets you keep your online personas - such as your work and personal browsing histories - separate.

Multi-Account Containers has been available as a Firefox add-on since 2017. It works to contain" your different online lives into separate tabs that you can label with colors, icons, or names. The containers just don't hold your browsing histories - they also store cookies and tracking information, which means you can sign into different accounts on the same site just by clicking over to another container.

But using the add-on with Mozilla VPN comes with a distinct advantage (well, at least in my option): the ability to hide your location across...

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