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> The "privacy" provided by so-called private browsing mode is just a smokescreen And to add insult to injury, browsing artifacts are sometimes remembered in W
by WallyFunk 4y ago
> The "privacy" provided by so-called private browsing mode is just a smokescreen
And to add insult to injury, browsing artifacts are sometimes remembered in Windows' pagefile and other parts of the OS. Even on Linux, if your distro cares to add stuff to swap, it will dump browsing sessions in plaintext to your hard-drive, incognito/private mode or not. This is why people need to use TailsOS[0] if they're really concerned about not leaving any traces.
[0] https://tails.net/ https://tails.net/
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoThat's not really on the application, though; "the OS can write your RAM to disk" is outside of Firefox's control.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoActually I have to add caveats to that. It looks like you could tell the OS not to swap your RAM using mlock/mlockall, but with significant caveats around overcommit that are a little over my head but which I suspect would be painful for a modern web browser to try and operate with.