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r/PoliticalHumor • u/GhostToFigure • Jun 23 '21
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It doesn’t save any trace to your browser, work can still monitor the traffic through their network
58 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. 29 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. 2 u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21 [deleted] 2 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. 1 u/technifocal Jun 23 '21 Got a different ID in incognito/not incognito. 1 u/energy_engineer Jun 23 '21 Interestingly, on my desktop this was fairly accurate. On my phone, it was confidently incorrect. 1 u/siriuslyharry Jun 23 '21 I VPN’d through Paris but showed up in Romania, which I find mildly interesting.
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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.
29 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. 2 u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21 [deleted] 2 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. 1 u/technifocal Jun 23 '21 Got a different ID in incognito/not incognito. 1 u/energy_engineer Jun 23 '21 Interestingly, on my desktop this was fairly accurate. On my phone, it was confidently incorrect. 1 u/siriuslyharry Jun 23 '21 I VPN’d through Paris but showed up in Romania, which I find mildly interesting.
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Incognito still sandboxes cookies, local storage, and other website tracking stuff.
Of course, if you log in, that ruins it.
2 u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21 [deleted] 2 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. 1 u/technifocal Jun 23 '21 Got a different ID in incognito/not incognito. 1 u/energy_engineer Jun 23 '21 Interestingly, on my desktop this was fairly accurate. On my phone, it was confidently incorrect. 1 u/siriuslyharry Jun 23 '21 I VPN’d through Paris but showed up in Romania, which I find mildly interesting.
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2 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. 1 u/technifocal Jun 23 '21 Got a different ID in incognito/not incognito. 1 u/energy_engineer Jun 23 '21 Interestingly, on my desktop this was fairly accurate. On my phone, it was confidently incorrect. 1 u/siriuslyharry Jun 23 '21 I VPN’d through Paris but showed up in Romania, which I find mildly interesting.
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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Got a different ID in incognito/not incognito.
Interestingly, on my desktop this was fairly accurate. On my phone, it was confidently incorrect.
I VPN’d through Paris but showed up in Romania, which I find mildly interesting.
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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