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The New York Times does the same thing now, too. A scary dark pattern. I wish Incognito mode was less detectable, though I’m not exactly sure how that would wo
by zxexz 7y ago
The New York Times does the same thing now, too. A scary dark pattern. I wish Incognito mode was less detectable, though I’m not exactly sure how that would work.
- lokedhs 7y agoQubes OS and running the browser in a disposable VM works. It should be possible to set up a lighter container with a browser whose data is completely wiped after the session competes for people who don't need or don't want to go all the way to use Qubes OS as their primate system. Surely someone must have built this already? If not, it would be an interesting project.
- zxexz 7y agoQubes OS is excellent for things like that, but not really something most people are willing to use. I love Qubes OS; especially being able to have a disposable Windows 7 template VM I can game with that has a PCI passthrough for my spare graphics card. Though, it's a bit heavy for my daily driver laptop. Also, re: your browser idea - checkout the sibling comment to yours on using Chrome with a temporary data directory.
- oh_sigh 7y agoWhy you can't just have all user profile data(cookies, local storage, browser history, etc) homed in a temporary folder that is deleted upon exit?
- zxexz 7y agoI think that's probably the 'easiest' solution. Could probably write a quick extension too just for NYT.