Facebook Container on Firefox detects tracker while reading a topic

The default configuration for the share links site setting on Discourse includes Facebook:

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Because of this, Facebook Container shows a warning & disables the button on most Discourse sites by default:

Screenshot from 2020-07-23 14-40-17

How the Container works:

Screenshot from 2020-07-23 14-43-04

Now, I’m not sure how much tracking is done here or if it’s a false positive but does it make sense to remove Facebook from the default configuration for that setting?

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There is zero tracking happening. The icon is just Font Awesome, served from the site own domain or CDN. This is a bug on this Firefox custom extension.

I’d say no. There is no tracking until you click on the button. And after you click on a button with a Facebook logo inside a “Share this” modal, it is reasonable that you will be sent to Facebook.

I’d recommend using the Multi-Account containers extension instead.

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