• yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    Use Firefox. Sure, a clean session of cookies isn’t going to keep you anonymous, but at least you can do it while not being on Google’s own browser and also have it collect information on you.

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      7 months ago

      It doesn’t matter. Companies have tracked cookielessly for a decade now thanks to Safari.

      This is why everyone is OK with giving up cookies. They don’t need it. It’s a facade.

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        7 months ago

        It still matters. Is it as effective as advertised? Not really. But it’s still doing something. Privacy and security are never a one off solution, but a group of methods/tools.

        I also feel you missed my point in my original post. My point is, using “incognito” from a browser from a company like Mozilla is better than using it from a browser made by an advertising company. One of them has an incentive to screw you. One does not. And to reiterate, I never said it was a perfect solution. It’s mitigation.

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      7 months ago

      Is there any way to re-enable password saving in private mode? All the discussions say “you don’t want to do that because it’s a type of history” but it’s sure less convenient leaving Firefox in private mode all the time.

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        7 months ago

        I use a password manager with a browser plugin so it just pulls from that. You can choose to enable whatever extensions you want in private browsing mode.