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jeffinRTP t1_is5u26f wrote

I use it for how I think it was designed to not leave the evidence on my machine of certain sites I visit.

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raichiha t1_is5zp15 wrote

I don’t recall incognito mode ever being advertising as performing any functions outside of not collecting browser history and cookies. What do these people even think its supposed to do anyway? Mask their IP address when buying black market drugs and firearms online or something?

It’s literally intended so you can like, watch porn without your kids seeing it in the recents tab and I believe thats pretty much it

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Antice t1_is676rv wrote

Its good for testing web pages during development. I can have 2 tabs logged in as separate users for instance.

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Riccars t1_is6dowt wrote

Exactly one for my Reddit account and one for my NSFW reddit account.

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Bad_Name_Generator t1_is7238m wrote

Reddit also have an incognito mode (or at least, it has one on Android).

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phsics t1_is6xjwl wrote

Firefox containers serve this purpose in a more elegant way imo

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2Punx2Furious t1_is7o9bi wrote

At my job we mostly work on Chrome, but personally, I use Firefox, but I've never heard of these containers.

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Grade_Zero t1_is7urlw wrote

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

It's amazing. Need to be logged in to 10 different accounts at once? Easy

There's even another extension that automatically creates a new container every time you open a new tab if you want

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2Punx2Furious t1_is9erfm wrote

Ah it's an extension, I thought it was a native feature.

Good to know, thanks.

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2Punx2Furious t1_is9fosr wrote

Didn't even see that. No, I use extensions on both Chrome and Firefox. I just thought it was native, I wasn't shitting on extensions.

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PleasantWay7 t1_is875oj wrote

Doesn’t Chrome share cookies across all incognito windows? Safari is the one that doesn’t.

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ProgrammedVictory t1_isez4y7 wrote

Yes, very annoying. I just create a separate chrome user profile for each of my personalities.

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ironichaos t1_is8fv4k wrote

Use Firefox and their cookie container plugin. I can log into as many aws accounts as I want. Total game changer but I haven’t found a similar one for chrome yet.

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pottybrains t1_is6qh3a wrote

When you open a new incognito tab it literally tells you that it isn't a l33t haxx0r spy tool, and just wont save your browsing history and keep you logged into accounts. As you said, it pretty much solely for not having to clear your browser history after watching porn, or googling particularly embarrasing medical questions.

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EtherCJ t1_is6fkbc wrote

Did you even watch the commercials for it? It's to buy gifts for your spouse without her knowing .. literally no other reason!

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Aemonn9 t1_is6umrw wrote

There were commercials for Incognito Mode? Thank god for adblock.

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jeffinRTP t1_is7dhe1 wrote

The commercials I've seen were saying you can use it to hide your fetish porn. 🤔😎🤗

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pressedbread t1_is97bi3 wrote

Only for the sick fucks whose fetish is to surprise their spouse with classy gifts.

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PuckSR t1_is84gmm wrote

It does two things: it starts a new window without history AND it creates a new browser that is missing all cookies, settings, etc from your normal session.

This has made the feature incredibly useful for people who work with webpages. If I am ever having a problem with a webpage, I always open it in incognito

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Jim3535 t1_is89uiv wrote

It's for watching youtube videos that you don't want ruining your video feed.

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Occams_Razorburn t1_is88gqs wrote

i use it for watching youtube videos that i don’t want infiltrating my primary accounts algorithm

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erosram t1_isa9ubb wrote

Does it behave any different in desktop safari than it does in desktop chrome?

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Speffeddude t1_is65jyh wrote

And for using a friend's/work/laptop computer without leaving your login credentials behind.

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PhonePostingCrap t1_is6hbx2 wrote

Yea. It's just there so porn doesn't populate into my address bar lol.

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jeffinRTP t1_is7bsn8 wrote

And that's basically what it says when you select it just keeps things from being stored on your machine.

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TravisVZ t1_is63i9u wrote

I've got a chronic problem with leaving too many tabs open, so I'm routinely using Incognito windows so that they will clean themselves up every time I have to restart my browser.

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newworkaccount t1_is6oks5 wrote

You can set any browser to not reopen tabs when you start your browser, just so you know. No need to use incognito for that purpose.

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TravisVZ t1_is6p1to wrote

Yes I know, but I have a subset of tabs that I do want to reopen every time, e.g. Gmail, Reddit, Facebook, GitHub, etc. So I use a normal window for that, and then use an Incognito window (or 3, when the tabs start getting too crowded!) for the "transient" tabs.

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GE_999 t1_is7umaj wrote

I only use it to get around paywalls on news sites when my limit of articles has run out

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despitegirls t1_is6eoj8 wrote

I use it for sites I don't want to appear in my history in my main session. That's what it's for. It's not meant to hide activity per se, just not have that activity appear in your main session. It tells you what it does but people have their own beliefs as evidenced by those in this study.

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jeffinRTP t1_is7bwhn wrote

That's true maybe they should have named it something different than incognito.

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