• feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    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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      9 months ago

      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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      9 months ago

      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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      9 months ago

      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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        9 months ago

        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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            9 months ago

            Does anybody use incognito for anything more than stopping pornhub show up when you press p in the address bar?

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        9 months ago

        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.