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by tonytuttle 1336 days ago
I feel like if you're technically savvy enough to have a good reason to be anonymous on the internet, you're hopefully technically savvy enough to not use incognito mode to do so.
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There's plenty of reasons non-technically savvy may want to be anonymous:

* Don't want companies building a profile on them

* Writing under a pen name and don't want to accidentally link it to real name

* Researching a topic that might result in peers/society judging them badly

* Want to price shop without companies raising prices because of their browsing (I don't think this happens, but it's a common fear/accusation)

* Activists worried about being spied on

* Person with some suspicious looking connections who doesn't want that to reflect onto them (perhaps you have a cousin that joins a enemy of your country - you didn't do anything but just want to email your family about news without getting on a watch list)

* Doing illegal things and don't want to get caught

In fact I'm kind of struggling to think what reason for anonymity is unique to the technically savvy... pirating?

It is unique because most websites rely on JS and no extensions really exist to try to hide or randomize all the information JS leaks.