Rediphile @ Rediphile @lemmy.ca

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Aww man I thought I found one! Guess I'm back down to zero people.

Lol it's probably one of the most famous weather delays in history.

I don't understand paying for streaming media at all... but I'm from the before times.

So do you feel the naming was inherently misleading which led you astray? Because incognito mode absolutely kept things 'sneaky' in terms of hiding the things I look up from other people who use the same computer. Which is specifically what Google said it would do and showed examples of in TV commercials. And it definitely did (and still does) that.

I'm also struggling to understand what you feel you 'trusted' Google on exactly. What did they tell you that you believed but, as it turns out, was not true?

Had you accidentally turned on 'avoid highways' by chance? Because the one time that happened to me it was.

I can bitch about chrome all day long... but none of that bitching will be about incognito mode as that was and continues to be an useful feature that did exactly what I expected it to do. Everything it said it did, it did.

Just because people made up their own imaginary ideas about what they think it does isn't really Google's fault. If people think snorkels allow them to scuba dive and then drown, I'm not about to blame the snorkel maker that wrote 'diving googles and snorkel' on the packaging.

The amount of words needed to fully explain this to tech illiterate idiots would be so many that those idiots would just argue they cannot be expected to read all of it. These people already do this with the terms + conditions documents they agree to.

Incognito mode did every single thing it said it did and behaved exactly as I expected from day one. Is there a single user here who actually was surprised by how it worked? Did anyone honestly think it was like Tor or something? Why? Where did anyone ever get that idea at all?

It seems the whole last decade has been focused on dumbing the Internet down for the dumbest 10% of the population. The Internet was better when it was less inclusive.

I don't believe it was ever called 'private mode', or am I wrong on this?

Which only has value to the corporation if the people driven there watch ads on said page.

But that would also eliminate all obese people from the media. Which is like 30%+ of the population.

I take a 2min pause of silence over 30 seconds of ads any day.

I think some of them were at that music festival...

Everything done to make the Internet 'safer' and/or more clear to idiots has made it worse for anyone competent. The ability to control cookies was always there and worked completely fine since the 90s.

Forced two factor authentication is another one. I literally never had any issues before two-factor because I just used different unique passwords and didn't share them with anyone. I have never been 'hacked' even once for 20+ years online. But now, I have issues when travelling and using a local sim with a different number when email authentication isn't permitted. And all to protect idiots who use 'hunter2' for their password across all systems and then act like some elite hacker cracked their code.

I've since just set up a voip number purely for two factor phone number based authentication, but it's annoying I was forced to do that instead of being given the option through and opt-in system.

They already know who I am lol. I don't hide it at all, straight raw dogging it without VPN or anything. Thankfully they can't do anything because they would lose money pursuing me.

But why can't they make something that smells delicious though like an Indian curry or fried Swiss cheese and eat that instead of nasty-ass fish?

Harm....to the environment, yes.

I smoked weed in Thailand as a 15 year old in like 2006 lol. It's always been there and always will be.

I've also smoked hash in Saudi Arabia. I have yet to find a single country in which I could not find cannabis in if around for more than a week or two. Literally no one has ever won the war on drugs or even come close.

And I'd be fine with the neighbors cooking up a smelly fish meal if they could just make that food odorless.

But obviously they can't and that makes no sense, so instead I am a normal human being and just deal with a smell that is not to my preference since it's completely subjective and can't hurt me.

Capitalism is the problem with capitalism. And It's not an excuse to be shitty, but the cause itself.