To settle a years-long lawsuit, Google has agreed to delete “billions of data records” collected from users of “Incognito mode,” illuminating the pitfalls of relying on Chrome to protect your privacy.
Use Firefox. Sure, a clean session of cookies isn’t going to keep you anonymous, but at least you can do it while not being on Google’s own browser and also have it collect information on you.
Is there any way to re-enable password saving in private mode? All the discussions say “you don’t want to do that because it’s a type of history” but it’s sure less convenient leaving Firefox in private mode all the time.
I use a password manager with a browser plugin so it just pulls from that. You can choose to enable whatever extensions you want in private browsing mode.
Use Firefox. Sure, a clean session of cookies isn’t going to keep you anonymous, but at least you can do it while not being on Google’s own browser and also have it collect information on you.
Is there any way to re-enable password saving in private mode? All the discussions say “you don’t want to do that because it’s a type of history” but it’s sure less convenient leaving Firefox in private mode all the time.
I use a password manager with a browser plugin so it just pulls from that. You can choose to enable whatever extensions you want in private browsing mode.
It doesn’t matter. Companies have tracked cookielessly for a decade now thanks to Safari.
This is why everyone is OK with giving up cookies. They don’t need it. It’s a facade.