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by piaste 1757 days ago
You do know that fingerprinting is a thing, right? Private browsing is designed to keep your local device clean of your tracks, not the wider web. At all.

Telling Facebook "hello, I am visiting baddragon.com from Mozilla Firefox 63.1 on Obscure Linux in Podunk, Saskatchewan, population 32" is barely an improvement over telling them "hello I am John Q. Smith and I am visiting baddragon.com".

And of course, private browsing is generally per-instance. Log in to your Google account in a private tab? All your other "private tabs" are also logged in to Google until you close the private browser.

1 comments

I use a generic iPhone without any mods

And yeah probably need to use windows not tabs on desktop. On iPhone each tab wouldn’t see that another is logged in though

(Otherwise yes good to be aware of fingerprinting I agree with you)