It is what it is
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I haven't used Chrome in years. Brave and firefox, that's my crowd.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Next headline: Google promises to delete the Firefox private window data they keep about you
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They are fully capable of extracting profile data from you even if you're in incognito/private mode. And it doesn't matter what browser you are using. My colleague was demonstrating techniques to do that with methods he personally figured out in one day in a hackathon in 2015.
Google has been actively researching and developing such techniques about as long as they have existed. I find it improbable that they would actually delete this data.
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Next headline: Google promises to delete the Firefox private window data they keep about you
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Firefox's main funding was from Google being their default search engine. Which of course means anything searched in Google (via the URL field) is recorded to the external IP address logs. So unless you are going directly to the website or changed the search engine in Firefox, yes Google was recording said information (or at least compiling the numbers for data analytics) to use for advertising purposes.
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Or masturbating to pornography
Or buying pornography.
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Pornhub headquarters is located at 21620 N 19th Ave, Phoenix, Arizona 85027
"Hello! I'm here to browse!"
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Incognito/Private Browsing came about when people were sharing computers more often. It doesn’t save history and cookies and whatnot on your device. It’s to prevent the next user from getting in to your bank account.
Google and whoever else will still know your IP and can use that to cross-reference whatever other data they have on you.
I use private, because I am a tab hoarder
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I haven't used Chrome in years. Brave and firefox, that's my crowd.
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Which is why i don't use safebrowsing but rather a separate profile located (
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Ah, good find. I just assumed it would have been explicit about it from the start
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Ah, good find. I just assumed it would have been explicit about it from the start
Yeah, one would have hoped that’d be the case - but apparently not.
I just remembered reading this a while back (start of last year, it seems?), and it honestly felt like a tacit admission of wrong-doing - so they’re likely going to be facing an uphill battle, or at least are expecting one.
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Firefox's main funding was from Google being their default search engine. Which of course means anything searched in Google (via the URL field) is recorded to the external IP address logs. So unless you are going directly to the website or changed the search engine in Firefox, yes Google was recording said information (or at least compiling the numbers for data analytics) to use for advertising purposes.
changed the search engine in Firefox
Which... takes maximum 1min to do.
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Or buying pornography.
Or pornographic gifts.
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I haven't used Chrome in years. Brave and firefox, that's my crowd.
Brave is also Chromium.
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Pornhub headquarters is located at 21620 N 19th Ave, Phoenix, Arizona 85027
I can't find incognito mode for Uber.
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I haven't used Chrome in years. Brave and firefox, that's my crowd.
Librewolf
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Go to the website directly! Porn hub is not hard to spell! I spell it all the time even using no fingers at all!
I spell it all the time even using no fingers at all!
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changed the search engine in Firefox
Which... takes maximum 1min to do.
or default in any of the forks!
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hey before they do that, can i look through their files on me? theres some porn i havent been able to refind anywhere
Wouldn't that be amazing! I have single frames of good videos stuck in my head that I can never find again.
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That was actually their lawyer's argument, that "incognito mode" being private was just something people assumed and ran with, not their fault.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I mean, they called it "Incognito".
Incognito: having one's true identity concealed
If it doesn't conceal your identity, then that's pretty clearly misleading. They're not selling to experts, the users of this are laypeople. It's like if you sold a "waterproof phone" and the packaging all made it look like it could withstand water, but then when it got wet it broke and you were like "people just assumed it was waterproof, it's not our fault".
Sure experts could tell, and enthusiasts would read the expert opinions on it, but that's not something you should expect of laypeople considering how it is presented. -
I haven't used Chrome in years. Brave and firefox, that's my crowd.
same i use Librewolf nowadays
