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Mine just wipes every time I close the browser
Same, I don’t really do “browser history”
Do you also wipe cookies, leading to needing to relogin every time you visit a site
Yes
That’s very annoying
I have a password database that is secure and offline.
Why the hell would I want my browser to store my passwords/session data?
Do you get autofill?
Hell no.
Copy, paste. Done.
it’s a couple clicks on Proton Pass. takes 6 seconds.
minor inconveniences are the cost of privacy and security.
Meh, not really. It only takes a few extra seconds and keytaps to logon with a password manager.
Accidentally closing the browser when not done however, that’s annoying
I do. A self-hosted password manager makes it only a second or two inconvenience for most sites. The worst ones are the ones that send you a code for 2FA, but still, with those it’s a 10-15 second inconvenience. One thing I’ve learned in my quest for proper digital privacy is that I had to give up my obsession of convenience. I used to be the guy that lost my mind when my internet was even a tiny bit slow, but I’ve had to get comfortable with not getting what I want immediately. I genuinely think it’s made me a better person in other areas as well, but that could just be cope lol
You can add exceptions, but yes
When a boomer shows you a cringe thirst trap on their tiktok feed and is like “who wants to see this?” You don’t know how algorithms work do yah uncle Scott lol
Well, at the very start the feed isn’t empty too , so your uncle maybe not at fault
Yeah… my youtube throws them into the shorts every now and then. It’s just fucking annoying. You’re youtube, they’re not even going to show anything anyway stick to the shit I actually click on.
aka “If you’re innocent, you got nothing to hide”
One will get you fired, the other makes it just that bit harder to prove.
Just use private tabs?
Browser history can be so useful (for looking up visited pages), and I dunno, archiving stuff just has an appeal of its own!
random junk goes in private windows. but stuff i might want a history of (research or work related, for instance) to go back later for, stays on the normal window and history.
Incognito mode ftw
I have straight up not used incognito since I was maybe 13 years old. Are yall really just handing off your devices to other people?
I mostly use incognito mode for google image search so that they can’t place a cookies on me
yes
Under what circumstances? That’s a genuine question. I can’t think of a single time in my life I’ve ever handed someone my phone’s internet browser to look up something
Hey bro look at this meme
It only takes a few taps to go from a meme, video, or picture you’re showing someone to the browser.
Didn’t have smart phones when I went to college, but I had some friends who prided themselves on how fast they could get to browser history on an “unattended” laptop, as in, I turned around to talk to someone else for ~60 seconds.
Probably have to identify at least a hundred crosswalks too.
Basically, only delete your browser history if the reality is worse than what people will imagine.
My browsing history would probably be more boring than what people would imagine. But it’s my browser history, eyes off!
If reality is worse than what people could imagine, you need to unplug.
Or – get this! – you can use a private tab/window for the really bad stuff, so it won’t get saved in your browser history. Then you can still have a browser history full of benign things, rather than an empty one.
Also very useful: Firefox has a feature of [Menu --> History --> Clear Recent History…] – that allows you to delete any trace of sites you’ve visited within a given timeframe, with choices of 1 hour, 2 hours, 4 hours, or all day. If it’s something older than that, you can also browse through your history and manually delete anything objectionable.
False
I tried to teach my grandpa’s crabs how to read but he smacked me and told me to stop talking to his pubes
Back in the late '90s I used to clear it and then visit a bunch of BS safe sites really quickly just to fill over here some garbage so my mom wouldn’t see
Yeah i got burned by recently opened files back when we used to still download and save porn
Incidentally that’s how I discovered porn. Older brother forgot it and I thought hey, new movie
That got me too. Always cleaned it after.
Unless it’s always empty forever and always.
