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Why? Be specific because unless something has gone horribly wrong sites can't access data from other sites or tabs unless they're cooperating. In which case they do so with session data.
And you could simply have a separate Firefox profile rather than spinning up an entire virtual machine.
Neat, Mozilla’s VPN supports setting servers on a per-container basis.
Though gotta watch for DNS leaks apparently.
XSS springs to mind.
And spinning up a VM (or container) is not that hard nowadays.
This does absolutely nothing to defend against XSS.
This is the problem with paranoia-based security. You create needless overhead thinking you're "more secure," but you're not. Not in any way that really matters, at least.
So if i spin up a container to run just that browser for just that site i do nothing against XSS? Interesting.
I can't tell if you're being facetious or not...
XSS is an attack within a site. For example - if I were to embed JavaScript in this post, and your lemmy website didn't properly sanitize it, then it would be executed by your browser. This would let me run code on lemmy with your credentials. I could then rewrite posts, delete your account, maybe send your data to another site where I could capture your session or credentials.
It has nothing to do with any other tabs and it would be limited to lemmy and the page that executed the script. I couldn't have that script read data from your bank on another tab, for example.
This is what I do. Even though there is nothing wrong with the Qubes approach, I think it's overkill unless you are hiding from nation-state attackers.