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> Or a large proportion are browsing incognito. How many people really use incognito mode? How many people (outside the unrepresentative minority that frequen
by sltkr 13y ago
> Or a large proportion are browsing incognito.
How many people really use incognito mode? How many people (outside the unrepresentative minority that frequent Hacker News) even know about the feature?
I don't have the data to back it up, but my guess would be that incognito mode doesn't really throw off the numbers in practice.
- benologist 13y agoI use incognito mode ... the last thing I want is redtube being a permanent fixture in auto-complete, most visited, or anywhere else Google decides to leverage that information locally or otherwise, especially with all the stuff Chrome syncs across computers/devices these days. As a feature it's received tremendous publicity so I don't think it's safe to assume nobody uses or knows about it: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703467304575383203092034876.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870346730457538... http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/technology/personaltech/how-to-muddy-your-tracks-on-the-internet.html http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/technology/personaltech/ho... http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/six-ways-to-guard-your-privacy-online-20130906-2t9f2.html http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/six-way... http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrymagid/2013/08/11/ways-to-help-reduce-the-chances-of-being-spied-on-by-the-nsa-or-anyone-else/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrymagid/2013/08/11/ways-to-he... http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/americans-go-to-great-lengths-to-mask-their-web-travels-survey-finds/?_r=0 http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/americans-go-to-gre... found most people tried to hide some stuff they were doing online.
- dnautics 13y agowhy stop at incognito mode? You could run an entire vm in a jail'd process. Or make a hidden user account with its own home directory (if you use a unix), etc, etc.
- benologist 13y agoI will when that stuff can be done as easily as shift-command-n or right clicking a link and selecting open in incognito!
- StavrosK 13y agoWhy? Incognito mode works fine, and all this extra work gets you nothing.
- Ellipsis753 13y agoFor me it's less about keeping embarrassing searches a secret and more about stopping my grandmother see it as a google search suggestion.