WhoRoger@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agoWebsites telling me what I can do with my own browser so they can have their pointless cookieslemmy.worldimagemessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up1159arrow-down16file-textcross-posted to: hdev@lemmy.world
arrow-up1153arrow-down1imageWebsites 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-21 year agomessage-square78fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: hdev@lemmy.world
minus-squareDraconic NEO@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year 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-up2arrow-down1·1 year 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-up0·1 year agoDid you opt in to sending your usage statistics to Google wine you first installed Chrome?
minus-squareWhoRoger@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoChrome? Why would I ever install that shit?
minus-squarejcg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoWhat browser are you using that pings Google?
minus-squareWhoRoger@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIceRaven - FF for Android fork that tries to remove all this crap but isn’t 100% there yet due to all the nonsense Mozilla includes. Generic FF did the same last time I used it. I think Mull doesn’t, but I haven’t used it in a while.
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?
IceRaven - FF for Android fork that tries to remove all this crap but isn’t 100% there yet due to all the nonsense Mozilla includes.
Generic FF did the same last time I used it. I think Mull doesn’t, but I haven’t used it in a while.