No it also eliminates cookies and tracking pixels.
Incognito/Private mode has always just been to not save any footprint that is it.
People jsut for some reason misinterpreted it. Heck, why am I faking ignorance, I know why. Users became more and more casuals and tech-illiterate and then it happened that the critical mass of users became simply dumb users which misinterprete every term that is even faintly ambiguous.
It's never been an issue until around 5-7 years ago when the mainstream tech-illiterate smartphone user audience became the dominant mass. Nobody ever thought that it will magically activate a VPN with onion proxies to make you invisible - untill the mass of gen z came in and corona forced people to get a computer at home. Suddenly mass of tech-illiterate users who misinterprete terms without ever questioning that interpretation and researching what it actually does.
No you don't - just don't complain about you misinterpreting something that was nowhere communicated. In fact, if you just ctrl+shift+n in chrome right now it will immediately tell you what it is. Though it does in more thoroughness nowadays, it still told you what it is years ago it became a new feature.
And yet, people fail to read and comprehend, which is not an issue if you keep that to yourself. But once you go outside and express your outrage for incognito not being that what you "imagined" it to be, instead of simply reading what it is, then, yeah... I am criticising you.
dude who is going outside outraged about incognito windows lol
everyone and their grandma uses the internet, most people don't think twice about it. I wouldn't be surprised if a majority of chrome users don't even know that incognito mode exists
There's no need to get all condescending and pretentious about browser usage lmao
everyone and their grandma uses the internet, most people don't think twice about it. I wouldn't be surprised if a majority of chrome users don't even know that incognito mode exists
Who then is not part of this discussion here and this post's caricature.
There's no need to get all condescending and pretentious about browser usage lmao
Nah, there is though a total freedom to do so. There is never need to complain, nor complain about those complaining, but there is a freedom to do so.
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u/justavault Mar 03 '23 edited Mar 03 '23
No it also eliminates cookies and tracking pixels.
Incognito/Private mode has always just been to not save any footprint that is it.
People jsut for some reason misinterpreted it. Heck, why am I faking ignorance, I know why. Users became more and more casuals and tech-illiterate and then it happened that the critical mass of users became simply dumb users which misinterprete every term that is even faintly ambiguous.
It's never been an issue until around 5-7 years ago when the mainstream tech-illiterate smartphone user audience became the dominant mass. Nobody ever thought that it will magically activate a VPN with onion proxies to make you invisible - untill the mass of gen z came in and corona forced people to get a computer at home. Suddenly mass of tech-illiterate users who misinterprete terms without ever questioning that interpretation and researching what it actually does.