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Right on -- I've found I have to use 3-4 different browsers for normal, everyday usage, because it seriously creeps me out when, for example, I open a YouTube v
by jtheory 15y ago
Right on -- I've found I have to use 3-4 different browsers for normal, everyday usage, because it seriously creeps me out when, for example, I open a YouTube video for my daughter in the wrong browser, and the banner at the top reminds me that "this YouTube account is managed by [my employer]", if I happened to use the "work" browser that needs to be signed into my work Google Apps account.
I'm not even sure that my employer has any access to my YouTube history. I'm sure he's not interested anyway. BUT whenever I pick the wrong browser and see that banner I feel invaded. So, there's a browser that's work-only, and has all of the cookies for that identity only. And it's not my default, so to open work URLs sometimes I have to cut & paste.
I used to get the same cold water shock whenever I visited a random site and saw the Facebook like button with "0 of your friends like this!" I don't WANT to know what sites my Facebook "friends" visit and/or like. I don't want all of THEM looking over my shoulder either, or Facebook looking over my shoulder either, for that matter. I don't get that shock anymore -- Facebook has its own browser entirely, and its cookies are aggressively deleted from other browsers (and "aggressive" is needed; it's hard to keep them off!). This fix also cut down my Facebook usage from multiple visits a day to maybe once a fortnight, but so it goes.
Same recoil whenever yet another site asks me to link the to Facebook (or link up all of my "friends"). Even Skype keeps prompting me.
I'm quite sure there are friends who can't find me on this or that site, even though I have an account, because I give every site different email addresses when I sign up. I have never, ever heard from a friend that this inconvenienced them (that my primary email seems to be registered nowhere).
There should be a third button, after "Connect to Facebook" and "No thanks; not yet", that simply says "FUCK no", and maybe a registry I can join so they can all stop asking me.
Er... strike the registry idea, though. What email address would I put?