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If you use Chrome, just CTRL+SHIFT+N (or CMD+SHFIT+N) and open them in their own session that auto-expires when you close the window. Then whatever they're doin

If you use Chrome, just CTRL+SHIFT+N (or CMD+SHFIT+N) and open them in their own session that auto-expires when you close the window. Then whatever they're doing is safe for them and they don't kick you out of all your accounts. And it takes a fraction of a second to do. "Hey, can I borrow a piece of paper?" "Sure, just grab a page out of my teenage daughter's journal that she's not using. Flip through until you find one"

alan_cx 14y ago
Er, why am "I" expect to muck around like that to simply protect my privacy, which was more private in the first place? Here's an idea, privacy first, ooooh anit we cool coders second. Privacy very much has to be the default, not google's cleverness or revenue stream. All I can say is thank the non existent one that I don't use gmail for anything even vaguely important.
- magicalist 14y ago
  "protect my privacy" is a really poor way to position this argument, if only for the many times we need to take companies to task for actually violating people's privacy. This is showing something on screen that you'd rather only have shown in a different tab. The only reason you don't have the same reaction to the location bar in your browser showing browser history is that you're used to it. If you don't want email results to show up on your search page, just don't turn it on.
  - barista 14y ago
    or just use DDG
- Groxx 14y ago
  Privacy-first would be logging out of sites when you're finished, or having the default state of your browser to be un-authenticated (just use private modes everywhere). If you don't do either of those, then you are clearly not using the options (easily) available to you to be private-first. If that is true, why would you expect every site to assume you want privacy, when you chose to have customization by being logged in?
SkyMarshal 14y ago
If you can do that, you may as well do the thing you were going to have the other person do. I think notregistering is referring to times you may have your hands full and/or can't get to your computer.
barista 14y ago
Out of the billion people who use Google how many do you think know about this and will remember to do this every time?

alan_cx 14y ago

Er, why am "I" expect to muck around like that to simply protect my privacy, which was more private in the first place? Here's an idea, privacy first, ooooh anit we cool coders second. Privacy very much has to be the default, not google's cleverness or revenue stream. All I can say is thank the non existent one that I don't use gmail for anything even vaguely important.

magicalist 14y ago
"protect my privacy" is a really poor way to position this argument, if only for the many times we need to take companies to task for actually violating people's privacy. This is showing something on screen that you'd rather only have shown in a different tab. The only reason you don't have the same reaction to the location bar in your browser showing browser history is that you're used to it. If you don't want email results to show up on your search page, just don't turn it on.
- barista 14y ago
  or just use DDG
Groxx 14y ago
Privacy-first would be logging out of sites when you're finished, or having the default state of your browser to be un-authenticated (just use private modes everywhere). If you don't do either of those, then you are clearly not using the options (easily) available to you to be private-first. If that is true, why would you expect every site to assume you want privacy, when you chose to have customization by being logged in?

SkyMarshal 14y ago

If you can do that, you may as well do the thing you were going to have the other person do. I think notregistering is referring to times you may have your hands full and/or can't get to your computer.

barista 14y ago

Out of the billion people who use Google how many do you think know about this and will remember to do this every time?