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If you put all G-services in their own container, google.com/mail can't access google.com/maps cookies, so, will it also not track location. Not sure actually, they indeed probably store your "consent" on their server. Could you block location services per container perhaps?

Hmm this is a smart move indeed, all of a sudden I'm logged into G-maps whereas I wasn't before... FireFox helpfully opened google.com/maps in my Google container...



> google.com/mail can't access google.com/maps cookies, so, will it also not track location

google.com has now direct access to your location, it doesn't need any cookies.


But it "doesn't" know who you are if you have not logged in. Or do you mean that the permission isn't container-specific?

(Of course it can probably make a pretty good guess, just as well it could do before this change.)


Would be nice if you could spoof or block access to your location per FF container. I'll see if I can put in a feature request.




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