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The Incognito Mode Myth Has Fully Unraveled(www.wired.com)

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feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
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I’m just using it to prevent my depraved, shameful porn searches from entering my browser’s autocomplete corpus. Learned that one fairly early on.

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RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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typing: 'p…

Autocomplete: “YOU WANTED PORNHUB.COM, RIGHT?”

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voxel@sopuli.xyz
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even worse, my university website’s page starts with portal.*

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slumberlust@lemmy.world
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This is why we visit porkbun every few weeks. We’re not actually registering domains that frequently ;)

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TriPolarBearz@lemmy.world
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A man who never eats pork buns, is never a whole man!

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EatATaco@lemm.ee
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No, you mean when you’re shopping for presents for your loved ones and you want to keep it a surprise.

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Victor@lemmy.world
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THAT ONE!! Ahm. Yes. That one.

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Scrollone@feddit.it
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When I was a kid, porn was the first thing I search for on Google.

Imagine my shock when Internet Explorer kept suggesting what I had searched whenever I started typing in the Google search box…

It took me a while to understand that it wasn’t Google, it was my browser

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MonkderDritte@feddit.de
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People could just use another browser profile, with it’s own set of bookmarks and uBlock in strict mode… Never saw much sense in “incognito” mode.

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settoloki@lemmy.one
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Why don’t we replace the low effort open incogento mode with a more convoluted creating of a browser profile and installation and configuration of an app. You’re full of the best ideas.

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MonkderDritte@feddit.de
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Copy paste the profile and done. And it’s more incognito than “incognito” mode.

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JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
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I use an entirely different browser (vivaldi), that way I can have all the logins and bookmarks and cookies I want and not have to worry about it.

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