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Yeah I'm not so naive to think it actually makes a difference.
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I use incognito so I can sign into multiple accounts on the same websites at once.
FYI most browsers have built-in options for user profiles, so you can have that benefit without the second account on a given website being logged out every time you restart the browser.
incognito is still handy when you’re logging in to a website with a lesser-used second account, though.
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I use incognito so I can search for the word pork sandwich without it autocompleting to a pornhub video of fem dom bdsm.
Yeah. Though also so I can not be treated like I regularly search stupid questions I have
I use incognito so I can search for some completely normal thing that I'm embarrassed I don't already know
ME.
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Technically incorrect unless you use http for some weird reason. The ISP can see the domain only, and (afaiu) not even that if encrypted client hello is used. At least kinda: they still see the IP which is not always unique.
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ISP can’t see pages. They can see domains or IPS but that’s it.
They can’t even reliably see domains when you use HTTPS, because some IP addresses serve many domains.
That's not entirely true. It's only very recently that browsers have started using a new system called Encrypted Client Hello which hides the domain of the request. Prior to this all requests needed too have the Host field unencrypted so the receiving server knows which certified to respond with. I imagine there's still quite a few servers which don't support the new setup still.
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They can still (mostly) sniff SNI for now which gives them a domain even when the IP isn't unique.
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Incognito is only good for one reason: Not having those sites in the browsing history.
I use it to get around website article limits when they try to force me to sign up.
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As someone else put it, it's for making sure your wife doesn't get suspicious of the weird ads you're getting, and when she checks the browser history it's clean.
Meanwhile Google, your ISP, and the NSA all know you're looking at freaky old lady bondage porn.
Yes but I trust the NSA to safeguard the integrity of the National Dick Pic Database. I can't say the same for my ISP.
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And even then, those sites can easily be retrieved by someone committed to finding them
And like the traffic at home through Adguard Home I see logs. More competent networks elsewhere will certainly be able to see what you're doing.
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Especially when you do this, considering a lot of privacy extensions are disabled by default in incognito mode (at least in FF), so there's less blocking of tracking elements.
(Also, unless you change your DNS provider or use a (proper) VPN, I believe your ISP sees everything no matter what, though I could be wrong about the latter.)
On the other hand, if this is a woosh situation & it's a joke, well, then, eh, I've seen funnier. ¯\_ (•_•) _/¯
Sometimes having those privacy extensions make you a lot easier to fingerprint.
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This is only true if you set your browser that way. On firefox I have all extensions be able to work in incognito. I believe you can do this on chrome too but I don't use that.
This is why I said "by default".
I'm pretty sure the FF default is to ask whether you want any extension to work in private windows, too.
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