# Youtube Container

> Youtube Container is a fork from facebook container that isolates your Youtube activity from the rest of your web activity in order to prevent Youtube from tracking you outside of the Youtube website via third party cookies.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-container](https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-container)

## Overview

- **ID:** `youtube-container`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Abdullah Diaa
- **Category:** privacy-security
- **Daily users:** 374
- **Weekly downloads:** 6
- **Rating:** 2.75 / 5 (16 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.3.1resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2018-03-31
- **Size:** 27 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-container/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/AbdullahDiaa/contain-youtube](https://github.com/AbdullahDiaa/contain-youtube)

## Description

**Youtube Container** is a privacy-focused Chrome extension that isolates your YouTube activity from your other web browsing. Forked from the popular Facebook Container, this tool helps prevent YouTube from tracking your online behavior outside their platform through third-party cookies. By sandboxing your YouTube sessions, it limits data collection and enhances your privacy online.

With Youtube Container, users can enjoy watching videos without having their activity monitored across the web. This straightforward solution is ideal for anyone looking to maintain control over their personal data and browsing habits while using YouTube.

## Rankings

- #5,998 — Overall
- #22 — contain
- #49 — contact
- #101 — prevent
- #145 — rest
- #147 — activity

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `<all_urls>`
- `browsingData`
- `contextualIdentities`
- `cookies`
- `management`
- `storage`
- `tabs`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `webRequest`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

### Pros

- Isolates YouTube from other websites
- The developer is eager to fix issues
- Easy to use
- Works flawlessly for Youtube.com

### Cons

- Conflict with other containers and Google container extension
- May cause high CPU utilization
- Constant thrashing on the tab bar
- Possible loss of browser data
- Reloads all youtube tabs at once
- Two tabs flickering when opening youtube.de
- Needs rewrite of code

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-container)