noscript vs contain-facebook

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The popular NoScript Security Suite browser extension. (by hackademix)

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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noscript		contain-facebook
	Project
59	Mentions	27
790	Stars	952
-	Growth	0.8%
7.7	Activity	7.8
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	19 days ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	Mozilla Public License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

noscript

Posts with mentions or reviews of noscript. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-11.

What It's Like to Use Apple's Lockdown Mode
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jan 2024
How Many Lines of C It Takes to Execute a and B in Python?
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Dec 2023
Is javascript always bad?
1 project | /r/TOR | 6 Dec 2023

Good or bad depends on the intentions of the website you're visiting, and unfortunately also of the many 3rd party script sources it includes. Users should have a chance to decide which sites they trust to run JavaScript and which they do not, and this is the reason why 18 years ago I've created NoScript, and why it is still there and shipped by default inside the Tor Browser.
The 8-Bit Era: Eight Iconic Processor Designs – By Babbage
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Dec 2023
Tool, um Tracking in die irre zu führen
1 project | /r/de_EDV | 5 Jul 2023
PSA: We're all ripe for phishing attempts while looking for Reddit alternatives
4 projects | /r/RedditAlternatives | 12 Jun 2023

Use a different name, password, and email if you can. Keep an adblocker and noscript handy. Don't accept cookies from new sites. Maybe even use the TOR browser for better anonymity and safety while you're giving these new platforms a test run.
Ad block detector
2 projects | /r/pihole | 31 May 2023

What is it?
Ask HN: Browsing the web with JavaScript turned off?
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 May 2023

I do (with the NoScript browser extension: https://noscript.net/). The main reason is to reduce my attack surface. A secondary benefit is it eliminates most ads and other annoying distractions.
GitHub Stars as a FOSS Metrics? 🤔
3 projects | /r/foss | 15 May 2023

I'll give an example of NoScript which is a great project that you should be using. Most people download the extension directly though their browser. Firefox shows 317,244 active users and Chromium shows 100,000+ users. Some people know of the website. Less people know of the GitHub project the NoScript Common Library (nscl). NoScript has 645 stars and nscl has 15 stars. 417,244+ active users and only 660 stars. If you use the project and you have a GitHub account, give it some love with some stars!
How was this site designed?
1 project | /r/web_design | 13 May 2023

Here: https://noscript.net/

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 noscript and contain-facebook you can also consider the following projects:

uBlock - uBlock: a fast, lightweight, and lean blocker for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.

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

uBlock - uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.

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.

brave-browser - Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.

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

uMatrix - uMatrix: Point and click matrix to filter net requests according to source, destination and type

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

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

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

smart-referer

hosts - 🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.