Incognito, is it good for protecting my privacy? No. Is it good at keeping whatever random porn I was looking up earlier from auto completeing after the first letter in the middle of my stream as I am trying to Google something unrelated? Yes. Yes it do be
You should double bag it by also using a second browser.
I see you like to live dangerously. Have a completely separate account on your computer for porn.
Put your porn on a separate hard drive, then just hotswap them whenever you want to see tiddies
Or just install Tails to a USB and boot to it.
The implications of using Tails and Tor to view pron…
Sorry, I’m not familiar with Tails, what’s the implication?
Tails is a privacy Linux version that runs from memory, and when you shut the computer down, everything you’ve done is gone. It comes stock with Tor, which you can use to access onion sites (the dark web.)
There’s only one kind of porn people have to go to the dark web for :c
Keep going, I’m almost there.
Honestly, why? How would that help over just using incognito?
Because sometimes
weother people forget to open in a private tab
But Incognito mode is protecting your privacy big time! Just towards the people living in your house or otherwise using your device, not your ISP etc.
I thought this was pretty clear from the beginning. As far as I can remember, the mode point blank told you what it’s for.
I thought this was pretty clear from the beginning. As far as I can remember, the mode point blank told you what it’s for.
“Buying gifts”
Incognito mode is such a terrible choice of name for this feature, and Firefox’s “private browsing” name is almost as bad.
To the average non-techie user, ‘incognito’ implies being anonymous. And when you go anonymous then nothing you do is linked to your real identity, right?
Wrong.
In real-world analogy terms, it’s more like using a pen-name as an author. Members of the public might not know the person behind the mask, but your publisher (ISP) and your agent (Google) certainly do.
Pretty obvious why people would get the wrong idea.
As a developer, my primary use-case for incognito is a new session to test a site with clean state, or - in absolutely dire circumstances - to cheat at Wordle.
New incognito tabs literally have a notice explaining what incognito mode does and doesnt do. People just need to read.
explaining bad behavior doesn’t justify bad behavior
Agreed. Amnesia mode would be a much better name, but I feel if Firefox changed to it some uninformed users might thing Chrome’s Incognito mode was somehow safer.
Yeah, naming things is really difficult!
The most truthful thing to call it would be “Temporary Session” but that name requires an understanding of what a ‘session’ is, in terms of a container that scopes your locally-stored browsing data. It’s immediately comprehensible to tech-types, but probably meaningless to the average user.
There’s not really any name that can accurately and succinctly describe what Incognito or private browsing actually does in a way that a normal person will understand from the name alone, but Amnesia mode is a good suggestion at one!
It used to be more incognito than it is now. Back in the day it blocked all cookies and sessions like it does now, but that alone was reasonably sufficient. Now there is tracking built right into the browser by Google, cross site scripting is common despite it violating several security standards, browser fingerprinting can isolate and identify you, and a lot of other general fuckery. It wasn’t always this way. They should update it to say “no browser history mode”.
I don’t think my girlfriend knows my pseudonym though.
yes, I do, Richard.
It’s not even really that. It simply doesn’t save anything you do (which can be done with regular browsing modes by simply disabling cookies and automatically clearing the history upon closing the browser). It’s more analogous to getting your browser just as drunk as you are so neither of you remember what you searched.
Do people not call it porn mode anymore? When it first came out, there was a lot of chatter about people not getting busted for their porn tastes anymore.
