WhoRoger@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 years agoWebsites telling me what I can do with my own browser so they can have their pointless cookieslemmy.worldimagemessage-square87fedilinkarrow-up1230file-text
arrow-up1230imageWebsites telling me what I can do with my own browser so they can have their pointless cookieslemmy.worldWhoRoger@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 years agomessage-square87fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDraconic NEO@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 years agoThere’s an extension that allows you to hide incognito mode from websites called Hide Private Mode I’m not sure why browsers don’t do this by default (maybe it’s some funny compliance thing) it would greatly improve privacy.
minus-squareWhoRoger@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoThx. It’s weird, but I guess that’s now part of Firefox now, to be hypocrites. Also why the heck does the browser need to ping Google every time I launch a private session? I can’t even fathom a reasonable answer.
minus-squarejcg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoDid you opt in to sending your usage statistics to Google wine you first installed Chrome?
minus-squareWhoRoger@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoChrome? Why would I ever install that shit?
minus-squarejcg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoWhat browser are you using that pings Google?
There’s an extension that allows you to hide incognito mode from websites called Hide Private Mode I’m not sure why browsers don’t do this by default (maybe it’s some funny compliance thing) it would greatly improve privacy.
Thx. It’s weird, but I guess that’s now part of Firefox now, to be hypocrites.
Also why the heck does the browser need to ping Google every time I launch a private session? I can’t even fathom a reasonable answer.
Did you opt in to sending your usage statistics to Google wine you first installed Chrome?
Chrome? Why would I ever install that shit?
What browser are you using that pings Google?