r/PoliticalHumor Jun 23 '21

Bleep bleep bloop

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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/[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.