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It should have been called “porn mode”, to prevent any confusion among the less tech-savvy.
by bluetomcat 3y ago
It should have been called “porn mode”, to prevent any confusion among the less tech-savvy.
- dizhn 3y agoI bet a lot of people do look at it like that and believe it provides some VPN like protections as well.
- gjm11 3y agoIt was informally called that from the very beginning; see e.g. https://www.theregister.com/2008/11/05/firefox_market_share_private_browsing/ https://www.theregister.com/2008/11/05/firefox_market_share_... (I think the usual term among the people developing the feature was actually "pr0n mode", but I may be wrong and/or misremembering. For the avoidance of doubt, I was not one of those people, I'm just describing what I think I remember seeing on the interwebs at the time.)