link_cleaner vs contain-facebook

link_cleaner

A Firefox extension to clean urls from tracking and advertisement parameters (by apiraino)

Facebook Container isolates your Facebook activity from the rest of your web activity in order to prevent Facebook from tracking you outside of the Facebook website via third party cookies. (by mozilla)

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link_cleaner		contain-facebook
	Project
2	Mentions	27
76	Stars	956
-	Growth	1.3%
0.0	Activity	7.8
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
-	License	Mozilla Public License 2.0

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link_cleaner

Posts with mentions or reviews of link_cleaner. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-28.

I have 49 add-ons enabled, how can I switch between a different configuration of addons as needed ? (other than running a private window)
21 projects | /r/firefox | 28 Mar 2023

46. Link Cleaner+ 1.7.5 Clean URLs before opening a link, removes trackers, rewrites redirects pages such as of Amazon, Facebook, Steam, Reddit (more to come!) and AMP urls. https://github.com/apiraino/link_cleaner
Is Link Cleaner+ available on chrome?
1 project | /r/chrome | 3 Aug 2021

Only mentions firefox here https://github.com/apiraino/link_cleaner

contain-facebook

Posts with mentions or reviews of contain-facebook. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-28.

Threads passes 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jul 2023

Hm, last official release was 8 months ago. The github page looks fairly active, and there is a fix merged already for this https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook/pull/936 and once issue #933 gets merged, it will generate a source release for 2.3.11 at https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook/releases which will probably become 2.3.12 on AMO after some manual intervention.
I have 49 add-ons enabled, how can I switch between a different configuration of addons as needed ? (other than running a private window)
21 projects | /r/firefox | 28 Mar 2023

31. Facebook Container 2.3.9 (Disabled) Facebook Container isolates your Facebook activity from the rest of your web activity in order to prevent Facebook from tracking you outside of the Facebook website via third party cookies. https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook
Lifelong Chrome user switching to Firefox, are there any extensions that are a MUST on the browser?
20 projects | /r/firefox | 24 Dec 2022

Facebook Container
Smart Move, Google
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Nov 2022

This morning I looked for a similar extension for Google and I've found this fork[1] of Mozilla's extension. It's working as expected so far but I'd love for it to be officially maintained by Mozilla at some point. There is an open issue about it[2].
[0] https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook
FF 104.0.2 menu bar
1 project | /r/FirefoxCSS | 8 Sep 2022

Okay nevermind, that was broken due to Facebook Container https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook/issues/858
Firefox showing dark text on dark backgrounds while using dark mode
1 project | /r/firefox | 8 Sep 2022

It’s because of Facebook container. Here is a GH issue with a fix: https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook/issues/867
Firefox Facebook Container update overwrites body fonts for all sites
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Sep 2022
The newest version of "Facebook Container" add-on (2.3.3) changes the CSS of the websites
2 projects | /r/firefox | 8 Sep 2022
Firefox broken with Facebook / Meta websites. Help?
1 project | /r/firefox | 1 Sep 2022

There's an open issue and workaround for it here.
Can I make Facebook Container open new tab as default?
2 projects | /r/firefox | 27 Jul 2022

That's a Multi-Account Containers option, but ApertureNext uses the dedicated Facebook Container extension. It has an open feature request for this feature.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing link_cleaner and contain-facebook you can also consider the following projects:

gpc-optmeowt - Browser extension for opting out from web tracking via GPC

noscript - The popular NoScript Security Suite browser extension.

privacybadger - Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically learns to block invisible trackers.

firefox-container-proxy - [Firefox extension] Assign a proxy to a Firefox container

ipmagnet - Check which IP adresses your BitTorrent client is handing out to trackers

Why-you-should-avoid-Google-AMP - An article on what Google AMP is, how it is destroying the openness of the Internet, and how to stop using it.

Content-Type-Fixer-extension - Firefox extension to override dumb Content-Type headers with correct values

link-to-text-fragment - Browser extension that allows for linking to arbitrary text fragments.

invidious-redirect - A (very) small WebExtension to redirect YouTube links to Invidious.

Countly - Countly is a product analytics platform that helps teams track, analyze and act-on their user actions and behaviour on mobile, web and desktop applications.

ViewImage - Extension to re-implement the "View Image" and "Search by image" buttons into google images.