Totally Incognito

Are there really people that think incognito does anything but clear your session history and cookies?

You'd be surprised. Lemmy is more tech-literate than the average internet user
- Yeah you're probably right. I saw someone the other day that thinks duckduckgo is a VPN
- Maybe, but I'm not very tech literate, and this seems pretty obvious.
- The website that’s solution to computer problems is to switch to linux? We’re more tech literate than most people?
I use it for exactly that to keep my porn sites off my search suggestions.
- Don't do that...
Are there really people that think there aren't people that think incognito does something more than clear your session history and cookies?
- Are there really people who think that there aren't people who think that there really are people that think there aren't people that think incognito does something more than clear your session history and cookies?
You'd be surprised. There are college students with no notion of files and directories/folders... even in computer engineering.
Speaking of incognito mode, many users, young or old, have no basic knowledge of how internet works (server, client, web browser...) and jumped straight into smartphones. Many can and will confuse the state of 'leaving no trace behind after' vs 'not being watched now'.

Also Google: "We see you're using a VPN, mind identifying 87 fire hydrants for us?"

I'm sorry, we decided that for this picture, mopeds count as bicycles. Please start over.
I'm sick and tired of this actually.

In all seriousness. I know the purpose of incognito. I use it because

A) It's easy to visit websites when gift shipping so you don't have to logoff/into sites.

B) I don't have to worry about wiping my history haha.

Isn't the main reason so you can search your stupid questions and not have to worry about them coming up in the autofill later?
- That's my use.
  Also when I want to watch some YouTube video but not to fuck my watchlist history.
- This is 1000% what I use it for lol
For A) check out Firefox and its Multi-account containers, it's really great!
but don't forget to wipe something else, mate.

You can be damn sure you're absolutely incognito!

to everyone except Google

And the website owner... oh, and your ISP, and the search engine provider and... well, let's cut this short: The only person you are incognito to is yo mama when she wants to see your browser history.
- Not even that if she is a lawyer
- Well, to the website owner you are incognito, as well as to your search engine provider (unless, of course, your search engine provider is also your browser owner, but that would be stupid, wouldn't it?).
  You're right with the ISP, though you can use VPN for that.

Incognito mode just switches on a ton more tracking cause everyone wants to know what your secret searches are, rather than the boring shit you usually search!