Open with Incognito and Privacy Modes

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FrgMstr

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I am not sure why anyone would ever want to do this, but How-To Geek shows us how to start a few of our favorite browsers in por...privacy mode without ever opening up a auto-logged in browser window.

Most people won’t want to use private browsing mode permanently. You will have to log into the websites you use each time you open your browser, as your browser won’t save the cookies that keep your login state.
 
I can see the reasoning behind this kind of thing, it actually is a privacy concern for many folks including me. For example, Google's "new" login page saves the login ID which to me is a big security risk - I'm a person that does not save most logins on most websites - the [H] is one where I don't mind it so much and it saves just a bit of time not having to manually log in with each visit. But since with Google I do have a bank/credit account attached to it for purchases with the Play Market then I consider it a big security no-no that it now saves my login ID which is right fucking there visible for anyone that has access to my laptop or browser.

Now, some would say "Oh if they had your laptop's login password they'd get that info anyway so who cares..." and I'd say "No, they wouldn't because I don't have the Google logins stored anywhere on the laptop (I have several Google accounts), so in the past people would have zero way to know who or what I am in that respect, now Google happily provides that information to anyone that can access my laptop..." so that means I have to delete that shit every single time I log out of a Google account now and there's no way to disable that aspect either.

And for the record: using Icognito or Private browsing modes don't help either, the login ID is still stored right there for anyone to see and that does translate back into the normal browsing modes as well. So much for that privacy, eh.

Google, what the fuck are you people doing?
 
Axiomatic said:
Truth be told, if you have to hide your porn. You've got the wrong girl/guy/whatever. :) (If it's Mom you are hiding the porn from, that shit is real and will cut you.)
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Almost want to create more accounts so I can like this post a few more times. :D
 
is it the same as right click the chrome icon in task bar > incognito mode? > google image search smurffette that one time?
 
Tiberian said:
I can see the reasoning behind this kind of thing, it actually is a privacy concern for many folks including me. For example, Google's "new" login page saves the login ID which to me is a big security risk - I'm a person that does not save most logins on most websites - the [H] is one where I don't mind it so much and it saves just a bit of time not having to manually log in with each visit. But since with Google I do have a bank/credit account attached to it for purchases with the Play Market then I consider it a big security no-no that it now saves my login ID which is right fucking there visible for anyone that has access to my laptop or browser.

Now, some would say "Oh if they had your laptop's login password they'd get that info anyway so who cares..." and I'd say "No, they wouldn't because I don't have the Google logins stored anywhere on the laptop (I have several Google accounts), so in the past people would have zero way to know who or what I am in that respect, now Google happily provides that information to anyone that can access my laptop..." so that means I have to delete that shit every single time I log out of a Google account now and there's no way to disable that aspect either.

And for the record: using Icognito or Private browsing modes don't help either, the login ID is still stored right there for anyone to see and that does translate back into the normal browsing modes as well. So much for that privacy, eh.

Google, what the fuck are you people doing?
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Use another browser if it bothers you that much.
 
Kids this days never have to work for anything. I remember spending hours, face planted against the TV on the scrambled playboy channel, just waiting for that amazing, neon-green nipple to appear. And when it did, it was a miracle.
 
Blakestr said:
Kids this days never have to work for anything. I remember spending hours, face planted against the TV on the scrambled playboy channel, just waiting for that amazing, neon-green nipple to appear. And when it did, it was a miracle.
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If you switched channels back and forth really fast the picture was clearer (y)
 
Blakestr said:
Kids this days never have to work for anything. I remember spending hours, face planted against the TV on the scrambled playboy channel, just waiting for that amazing, neon-green nipple to appear. And when it did, it was a miracle.
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This might be the root cause of all the anger in college campuses. Too much porn without working for it.
 
Krenum said:
If you switched channels back and forth really fast the picture was clearer (y)
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i remember taping the last channel button so it would loop and if you had it just do the same channel over and over it would bypass the scramble filter, just would have a flicker.
 
Darunion said:
i remember taping the last channel button so it would loop and if you had it just do the same channel over and over it would bypass the scramble filter, just would have a flicker.
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LOL, old school hacks.
 
I have all the computers in the break rooms at work set up to do this already, since they're typically used to log into our healthcare center. I remember laughing at the ticket, as it was assuming this would take hours and hours to figure out a way to set them to clear their settings every time they closed the browser. It took 15 seconds to change their mapped shortcut to incognito mode
 
Early 80's...cable boxes with the dial on front, not buttons. You could take a small note-card, bend one end up to form a "J" shape and slide it in between where the faceplate of the cable-box joined with the outer shell (there was a gap), and sorta like casting a line in fishing, you'd eventually catch something inside and.....with a little bit o' magic....the channels would descramble. It was nearly a decade before they had to abandon those boxes (the numbers on the dial only went up to 60 or 80). Remote Control? Hahahahaha....we had coax extension cables. \m/
 
Loose Nut said:
Privacy Mode and Incognito, its like using a piece of paper to stop a bullet
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It sounds like you don't have much of an idea of the point of the features but ok. When using these modes your browser will not store cookies which can be used by other sites later to track you, it will not keep your history, nor will it remember any passwords. It is meant to keep you from being tracked days or hours later. You go look at Amazon at an item, for days you will see that item in ads on sites you go to. You go to resort / hotel and log into their customer WiFi network and for days after you get home you will see ads for that area / hotel. If you were using one of these modes you wouldn't have had tracking cookies put into your computer and so you wouldn't see ads aimed at stuff you were looking up or places you have just been to. It won't stop you from getting a virus or anything like that. it simply is meant as a way to reduce tracking.

Personally I only use it on shared computers. That way I don't have to worry about did I forgot to log myself out of X site instead of just leaving it. That way I don't have to worry about something like stopping in an office and checking my work email but forgetting to log out and having somebody else come through later to check their email and find that I am logged in.
 
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