Youtube Container

Youtube Container

Youtube Container is a fork from facebook container that isolates your Youtube activity from the rest of your web activity in order to prevent Youtube from tracking you outside of the Youtube website via third party cookies.

What is Youtube Container?
Youtube Container is a Firefox add-on that isolates your Youtube activity from the rest of your web activity to prevent tracking through third party cookies.
Merlin
Stats
Users: 521 ▼ -4
Rating: 2.75 (16)
Version: 1.3.1resigned1 (Last updated: 2024-04-25)
Creation date: 2018-03-31
Weekly download count: 8
Firefox on Android: Yes
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • <all_urls>
  • browsingData
  • contextualIdentities
  • cookies
  • management
  • storage
  • tabs
  • webRequestBlocking
  • webRequest
Size: 27.61K
URLs: Website
Stats date:

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Summary

Youtube Container is a fork from facebook container that isolates your Youtube activity from the rest of your web activity in order to prevent Youtube from tracking you outside of the Youtube website via third party cookies.

User reviews
User reviews summary
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Pros
  • Isolates YouTube from other websites
  • The developer is eager to fix issues
  • Easy to use
  • Works flawlessly for Youtube.com
Cons
  • Conflict with other containers and Google container extension
  • May cause high CPU utilization
  • Constant thrashing on the tab bar
  • Possible loss of browser data
  • Reloads all youtube tabs at once
  • Two tabs flickering when opening youtube.de
  • Needs rewrite of code
Most mentioned
  • Conflict with Google container
  • Issues with tab loading
  • Loss of sessions when clicking on links
Recent reviews

Trash since it conflicts with other containers.
by Hannibal Lecter, 2021-01-16

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Safety
Risk impact

Youtube Container is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Youtube Container if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

Youtube Container is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

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