Everytime this is reposted in a new template I remind everyone that no one is using incognito mode to hide from their ISP they are using it to hide from their spouse or partner.
I mainly use it for random things that I don’t want to influence my recommendations, like clickbait YouTube videos.
I also use private mode for searching things that I myself would be appalled to find in my own search history.
…and so that typing in a url doesn’t automatically auto fill with a site you’d rather not let anyone else see.
That’s an option you can disable, no need for incognito
Yes, but I want auto fill turned on for some websites because they go straight to the section that I want instead of navigating through the site every time.
i use private windows mainly so i don’t clutter up browser histories with useless stuff i won’t go back to (if i do run across something to save, it gets bookmarked or printed to pdf).
Yeah thats why I use Firefox Focus on mobile. It has no feature to save history. I use normal Firefox in case I want to save history or login permanently
The ISP can see every domain, but not every page. That’s what HTTPS everywhere was all about.
They can see the entire URL, not just the domain. They just can’t see the contents themselves. But they can still see “dudesfuckingfurniture.com/gettingfreakywithadresser.mpeg”
Edit: I might be wrong
When it comes to HTTPS, this is just plain wrong on a technical level.
The example link doesn’t work :'(
I was ready to go down a rabbit hole there
Also VPNs see everything you do, but please, again, enlighten me how paying some OTHER corporation somehow better protects me from corporations?
A VPN isn’t magically solving all privacy and security issues. Personally, I would trust Mullvad, Proton and IVPN with my data over my ISP. They’ve been audited, and they’ve been put to test multiple times, and not been able to give away data. But it all really boils down to personal needs, and each to their own on that. If you don’t want a VPN, then don’t buy into one.
I always thought private browsing was just so all the porn content doesn’t stay in search history’s and the address bar doesn’t auto fill fatasshonkeybabes.com if my grandmother sits down to look at her Facebooks.
The one word more people need to know about: threatmodel
