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- privacidade@lemmy.eco.br
- 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 ( @Dirk@lemmy.ml ) 161•5 months ago
Incognito is only good for one reason: Not having those sites in the browsing history.
- 0ops ( @0ops@lemm.ee ) 37•5 months ago
It’s handy when you need to make sure that someone else can access a url ok without having to sign in to the website or anything. If you can immediately see the page in incognito mode without signing in, they’ll have no problem
- asexualchangeling ( @asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml ) 29•5 months ago
It’s good for using someone else’s computer without having to worry about passwords being saved or making sure you logged out before leaving
- w3dd1e ( @w3dd1e@lemm.ee ) 26•5 months ago
I use it to get around website article limits when they try to force me to sign up.
- Paradachshund ( @Paradachshund@lemmy.today ) 26•5 months ago
I use incognito so I can sign into multiple accounts on the same websites at once.
- yeehaw ( @cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ) 23•5 months ago
Firefox containers is your friend. It’s way better. I can sign into dozens of separate pages for different clients in a single browser window in different tabs if I want.
- Holzkohlen ( @Holzkohlen@feddit.de ) 2•5 months ago
Is that a permanent solution or do I have to set it up every time? I just use profiles. about:profiles there you can setup a new one and launch it in a new window. I like to theme the windows in a different color to not get confused. Bright red is for 18+
- Sonotsugipaa ( @Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English7•5 months ago
Firefox containers are basically just named cookie sets: they don’t have per-container settings, they just let you create containerized tabs that don’t share cookies between each other (maybe local and session storage too, idk).
They’re useful if you want to make it a bit harder for websites to track you around, or for selectively keeping you logged into a website (alt account usage comes to mind), but your use case seems to be centered around actual profiles.
- Zagorath ( @Zagorath@aussie.zone ) English10•5 months ago
FYI most browsers have built-in options for user profiles, so you can have that benefit without the second account on a given website being logged out every time you restart the browser.
incognito is still handy when you’re logging in to a website with a lesser-used second account, though.
- fl42v ( @fl42v@lemmy.ml ) 17•5 months ago
Technically incorrect unless you use http for some weird reason. The ISP can see the domain only, and (afaiu) not even that if encrypted client hello is used. At least kinda: they still see the IP which is not always unique.
- Papamousse ( @Frederic@beehaw.org ) 7•5 months ago
Yes, this is why you should use DNS over TLS. My router signal to every DHCP client that it is the DNS resolver, and internally use DoT/dnssec to query IPs. It also intercepts every request on DNS port in case of some DNS are hard-coded on some devices.
- FreeFacts ( @FreeFacts@sopuli.xyz ) 3•5 months ago
DNS over TLS won’t save you thanks to SNI. As there is a huge shortage of IPV4 addresses, same IP addresses serve multiple hostnames, and to provide a working encryption, TLS handshake includes the requested hostname in plain text so that SNI can be used to determine which certificate should be used. That plaintext hostname is something your ISP can easily log.
Rule of thumb is, Https does not provide anonymity, only encryption.
- yeehaw ( @cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ) 5•5 months ago
But the IP can also sometimes be meaningless if there are proxies or vhosts used.
Especially when you do this, considering a lot of privacy extensions are disabled by default in incognito mode (at least in FF), so there’s less blocking of tracking elements.
(Also, unless you change your DNS provider or use a (proper) VPN, I believe your ISP sees everything no matter what, though I could be wrong about the latter.)
On the other hand, if this is a woosh situation & it’s a joke, well, then, eh, I’ve seen funnier. ¯\_ (•_•) _/¯
- /home/pineapplelover ( @pineapplelover@lemm.ee ) 4•5 months ago
This is only true if you set your browser that way. On firefox I have all extensions be able to work in incognito. I believe you can do this on chrome too but I don’t use that.
This is why I said “by default”.
- CyberEgg ( @CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de ) 5•5 months ago
I’m pretty sure the FF default is to ask whether you want any extension to work in private windows, too.
- /home/pineapplelover ( @pineapplelover@lemm.ee ) 3•5 months ago
Yeah and I love this little prompt. For chrome, you have to dig through the menus for every extension
Yeah, but I believe until you made a decision it defaults to not enabling it.
- frezik ( @frezik@midwest.social ) 3•5 months ago
HTTPS sends the domain in plaintext with SNI. Has to work that way due to IPv4 address exhaustion.
- dangblingus ( @dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 12•5 months ago
As soon as Chrome first launched incognito mode, it immediately felt like the “Alert Google to start tracking you” mode.
- Cowbee ( @Cowbee@lemmy.ml ) 7•5 months ago
A simple spell, wish it was effective.