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> incognito doesn't have power over what sites do with request data Again, this is just a description of how the world works. It says nothing about how the wor
by ironmagma 6y ago
> incognito doesn't have power over what sites do with request data
Again, this is just a description of how the world works. It says nothing about how the world could work. Incognito could turn your browser into a Tor client, or use a random sequence of VPNs to tunnel your traffic, or both, for example.
- SilasX 6y agoFair enough -- I agree that there's more that a browser can do to protect your privacy. But I was mainly speaking to the question of what a reasonable user can expect, given what incognito mode communicates to them. And that reasonable expectation is "browser works the same, except with a new dummy identity", just like a burner phone vs your regular cell phone. A mode like you describe is great, but I wouldn't expect a browser's built-in privacy mode to do all of that by default. (And, FWIW, even then my statement is true. Even with the max privacy protections, once your request data has reached their servers, you can't do anything about their data storage by technical means. So even with a Tor client, if you've logged in and have to persist cookies to maintain session state, you can expect that the site to match identities across VPNs/Tor endpoints.)