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What's the difference between chrome's and Firefox's incognito?

• Vinnl 4y ago
  Firefox's Private Browsing mode also tracks more trackers and third-party cookies by default. Still won't catch everything, but it's definitely more private.
• yetanotherjosh 4y ago
  Even outside private browsing, Firefox has a feature called "total cookie protection"(1) which in a nutshell creates a separate cookie jar for every domain, so that third party cookies "work" but are not actually the same cookies if you change to a different site that uses the same third party. This would be entirely self-defeating for Chrome to do that, as it would substantially hinder the ad system's ability to build a comprehensive behavior profile and to know that while you're on site A that you also shop and buy on site B. Again this is now the default behavior in Firefox, not even a special mode. Mozilla as an org really is a good guy doing good things in the fight for online privacy, safety, transparency, etc. Not that I think Google is evil, it's just a different business with different customers with different concerns. 1) https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-rolls-out-total-cookie-protection-by-default-to-all-users-worldwide/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-rolls-o...
• dredmorbius 4y ago
  FF incognito alone not so much. But there's also container tabs, which fully isolate content and context from one another (though of course IP-based tracking remains effective). <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers>