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Twitter Container isolates your Twitter activity from the rest of your web activity in order to prevent Twitter from tracking you outside of the Twitter.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/twitter-container/
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Twitter Container is Failing to Contain Tracking Links to Twitter #1

Closed HURSSGH closed 4 years ago

HURSSGH commented 5 years ago

Hi,

I have yet to see a website where twitter container contains tracking links tied to Twitter Buttons.

FB Container contains these buttons, so I would think Twitter Container should also contain Twitter buttons. (Yes, there are bugs in FB Container re this issue, and I have reported them.)

Here is one example, this from the BBC. I see the same issue across most/all sites that have the Twitter button. So, I am just providing you this as an example.

Webpage: https://www.bbc.com/news/disability-49584591

Button is at "Share this story" at the end of the article. The link which should be blocked (because it provides Twitter with tracking information) is as follows: https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=BBC%20News%20-%20Spikes%20-%20and%20other%20ways%20disabled%20people%20combat%20unwanted%20touching&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fdisability-49584591

Note that on this page, FB Container blocks FB proper, but fails to block FB messenger.

Thanks for the great effort! I hope you can resolve this problem as it is a serious defect in your efforts to containerize apps and prevent tracking.

v1shwa commented 4 years ago

Hey @HURSSGH , Thanks for creating the issue.

Even though it doesn't block the Tweet button on the site, it does not allow any network calls to twitter from other websites. So, unless you click the Tweet button on a website, twitter won't be able to track you. Even then, I believe it'd just get the referrer's url

Twitter container was created as simple & light-weight addon with a purpose to block twitter automatically tracking you from the websites you visit, which seems to be working fine.

I agree that, it'd be nice to have a blocking note like FB container & I'll definitely look into sometime in the future or if you can send in a PR, I'm more than happy to merge it.

Thank you!