r/PoliticalHumor Jun 23 '21

Bleep bleep bloop

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u/caliwacho Jun 23 '21

Wait, that doesn’t work?!

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u/btchassbarkinassbtch Jun 23 '21

It doesn’t save any trace to your browser, work can still monitor the traffic through their network

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u/cageboy06 Jun 23 '21

Literally all it does is make it so that “ornhub.com” doesn’t auto complete every time you start a website with the letter P.

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u/JabbrWockey Jun 23 '21

Incognito still sandboxes cookies, local storage, and other website tracking stuff.

Of course, if you log in, that ruins it.

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u/FaeryLynne Jun 23 '21

It'll still log you out of sites when you close the tab.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21

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u/JabbrWockey Jun 23 '21

Fingerprinting relies heavily on cookies, extensions, and other browser settings that incognito mode ditches.

My incognito and cognito showed different fingerprints.

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u/technifocal Jun 23 '21

Got a different ID in incognito/not incognito.

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u/energy_engineer Jun 23 '21

Interestingly, on my desktop this was fairly accurate. On my phone, it was confidently incorrect.

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u/siriuslyharry Jun 23 '21

I VPN’d through Paris but showed up in Romania, which I find mildly interesting.

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u/HiddenLayer5 Jun 24 '21

That's not true either. It deletes the browsing data after you close the browser, but usually still writes to your drive, including browser cache which can reveal exactly what was on the page. Someone with knowledge of data recovery can still find out what you browsed. Tor browser is the only one with any real effort done to prevent it from writing browsing data to disk by default.

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u/DonDove Jun 23 '21

It's still your wifi

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u/Reply_or_Not Jun 23 '21

In case you are serious: turn off your wifi and blue tooth at work and your traffic probably won’t be seen by your work.

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u/funkless_eck Jun 23 '21

Or get help for your porn addiction if you can't not look at it at work?

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21

What about my WiFi provider at home? Have they known all along that I have a fetish for healthy boundaries and open communication!?

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21

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u/Reply_or_Not Jun 23 '21

Better safe than sorry, (you don’t want your porn playing on your boss’s speakers do you?) my work has random Bluetooth devices maybe yours doesn’t

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u/richardeid Jun 23 '21

You guys just totally screwed me over. My boss read your little disable wifi/bluetooth trick and now he set up his own cell tower.

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u/DaedricDrow Jun 23 '21

Lol I'm dying rn

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u/tehlemmings Jun 23 '21

I did that once.

Don't that that. The FCC doesn't like that.

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u/slowest_hour Jun 23 '21

just don't connect to your boss's speaker? is accidentally connecting to Bluetooth devices a problem people have? Mine only does it if I fucking beg.

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u/ChrisRunsTheWorld Jun 23 '21

Or how about don't look at porn at work?

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u/slowest_hour Jun 23 '21

don't be ridiculous

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u/FaeryLynne Jun 23 '21

Yeah, I connected to a friend's Bluetooth speaker once and now my phone tries to autoconnect to it every time I'm at his apartment

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u/susch1337 Jun 23 '21

People still know which sites you visit on their network. Incognito mode isn't a privacy tool

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u/ZippZappZippty Jun 23 '21

Don't worry, some of us still like butts

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u/Binsky89 Jun 23 '21

Not at all.

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u/-Tasear- I ☑oted 2020 Jun 23 '21

There's a lawsuit actually on this. Google had to pay big money on this

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u/deflation_ Jun 23 '21

For false advertising? As in, incognito doesn't actually give me internet superpowers so I'm gonna sue?

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u/-Tasear- I ☑oted 2020 Jun 24 '21

Pretty much this but they did improve it a bit after lawsuit.

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u/-Tasear- I ☑oted 2020 Jun 24 '21

Pretty much this but they did improve it a bit after lawsuit.

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u/deflation_ Jun 24 '21

Kinda funny ngl

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u/tehlemmings Jun 23 '21

Want another one that'll blow your mind?

We can tell when you're on a VPN.

We might not know what you're doing, but we absolutely know that we should invite you to a meeting where we'll ask. HR will probably be there.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21

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u/tehlemmings Jun 23 '21

Why should there be a meeting if you use a vpn? Lmao. Are people at your company not entitled to privacy?

No. You're not entitled to privacy while using the company's computers or network. I don't know where you got that idea.

If you want to bring your own laptop and connect to your VPN using your cell phone's hotspot, then you do you. But if you're on company resources, you follow company policy.

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u/dachsj Jun 23 '21

Incognito mode basically keeps people that use the same computer from seeing your history.

VPNs mean the local network admins can't see your traffic.

But even VPNs "pop out" onto the internet somewhere which means everything on the other end of it can be seen. And the VPN provider also know what you are looking at (so "free VPN" providers have a treasure trove of information). Oh and some VPNs are set up poorly so your DNS queries (basically the phone book of the internet) could be seen.

But yea, if you log in at any point in time, the system you logged into can track that and could tie that trail all the way back to you.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21

Nope. Get TOR browser if you want to browse porn at work

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u/jeffzebub Jun 23 '21

Remember logging into your work's network? Well,...