If you're using Firefox, your first add-on should be uBlock Origin. At this point, it's not just blocking ads. It's basic Internet hygiene.
However, especially if you handle sensitive sites like bank/payment portals or one to several social accounts, your second add-on should be this little thing called Firefox Multi-Account Containers.
It's extremely useful. You can keep the defaults or wipe them all and make your own. So long as you don't sign in to things outside of containers, things opened in Firefox by default won't have access to your accounts. Sites you sign in to will only be signed in on that specific container. Links followed in Fun will not have access to your already signed-in sites on Bank. Links opened from your social account in Personal don't risk accidental interactions from a different social account under Professional.
Social containers are even more helpful for sites that don't support account switching. Even if they do, all you have to do is use a different account in each container and you can view both accounts side-by-side.
Oh, and it's published by Mozilla themselves within Firefox's add-on repository. You can trust it about as much as you trust Firefox.
There should be plenty of information and tutorials out there for it, but if people are interested, I can try putting together a basic walkthrough and posting it here.
I happen to have a question about it, as I installed it last week. Is there a way to delete all cookies not tied to a container? I pictured that being part of it before I installed it, but I'm not seeing how to do that. I assume if I delete all cookies in Firefox settings it will also remove the ones in all containers?
If that's not available, I guess a better way to use it might be to open everything in a container, and when you want those cookies deleted you delete the container?
@jrefior
With the extension Cookie Quick Manager you can manage cookies in a specific container or outside any container. Even the private windows cookies.
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