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Wouldn't creating a second user in chromium do what you want here? You could have a specific "social media" user.

I'm not sure what you mean. If this involves "sign in to Chromium" then that seems to involve signing in to Google, and that sort of defeats the purpose.

Incidentally, Chromium is what I use for Facebook...and only Facebook, on this particular computer. And signing into Chromium with my Google account seems to me to be a big information leak.

Chrome/chromium has the distinction of user profiles[1]. You can have separate windows have separate profiles (but not separate tabs). This has nothing to do with Google accounts. Each profile has their own 'jail' of chrome resources (cookies/history/tabs/etc). This is really useful when you need multiple persisting sessions while doing web dev or whatever else.

[1] https://www.chromium.org/user-experience/multi-profiles

Thanks. The command line can be used to launch Chromium with a specific user profile as described here:

https://superuser.com/questions/377186/how-do-i-start-chrome...

to achieve what he said he'd need one user per browser tab...

you do realize that facebook etc still track you, even if you're logged out, right?

as can google, and every other major player.

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