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[–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

that's why i do everything that's transactional in an incognito window. i have plenty of non-incognito tabs but they're nearly all sites i log into on the regular such as lemmy. combine that with firefox's built-in privacy protections and ublock origin, which is a combo that absolutely wrecks a lot of tracking and browser fingerprinting scripts to begin with (i have actually done contract work for marketing communications people and it was crazy how many layers of defense i needed to peel back just to debug their shit) and most of that tracking becomes disjointed cookies that only span a single session each and are hella hard to correlate.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Incognito window doesn't do what you think it does. Also it doesn't stop browser fingerprinting, even tor itself doesn't really take a win there.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    yeah, the thing that stops browser fingerprinting on the threat level of ad companies is firefox's built-in protections (which are in fact stronger in incognito) and ublock origin; and umatrix, full script blocking, and probably prayers on tor's level.

    what incognito does is it breaks apart your chain of regular cookies. those can still slip through a lot of these tools, especially when they're first-party, but they're also kinda low-tech because of being first party most of the time (while the third party ones are easily blocked by other tools). that way the trace you leave behind is not one long thing, but many small ones that are hard to connect.

    incognito is just one layer of defense but it's an important one

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