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For sites you visit occasionally, it's better to enable tab isolation (use the containers feature) and then enable JS only for that domain (note the difference between allowing JS from that domain in any tab, vs only allowing that tab with that domain to use JS, you should do the latter)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/
If you're switching to a different browser you may as well use the same browser but a second clean profile and use private tabs so it doesn't retain history. Using private tabs in your main browser profile does also help but isn't perfect because there's still some metadata leaks occasionally.
Using a different browser could ironically make you easier to track - how unique you are is the main signal used to track you (user agent, OS, language, etc), and going for an even more rare config will help their tracking even if you delete session cookies. Especially if they have a tracker across multiple domains you visit from different browsers from the same IP, with similar device fingerprinting results across browsers. That's a strong signal those sessions are linked. You want to NOT stand out to maintain your privacy.
Aprivate tab protect nothing, it only prevents that other with access to your PC see which pages you have visited, the web pages see the same with or without privat tab. It's often misunderstood what private browsing mean. If you want to browse private, there isn't any other as using an Proxy or VPN, using Portmaster, Glasswire or Pi-Hole on desktop, adjust the site permissions in the privacy settings in your browser, than you can browse more or less private, if you also use an search engine which don't log your activity. You can visit Browserleaks, there you can see how private you are.
Private browsing also gives you a seperate cookie store. In 2025, this probably isn’t enough- but websites do not “see just like without private browsing”
His main point wasn't private tabs, it was firefox containers. He only mentioned private tabs for deleteting cookies after closing those tabs.
Temporary Containers was really good for that, but it hasn't been updated in years.