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[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

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. ¯\_ (•_•) _/¯

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is why I said "by default".

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure the FF default is to ask whether you want any extension to work in private windows, too.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah and I love this little prompt. For chrome, you have to dig through the menus for every extension

Yeah, but I believe until you made a decision it defaults to not enabling it.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 10 months ago

HTTPS sends the domain in plaintext with SNI. Has to work that way due to IPv4 address exhaustion.

[–] TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes having those privacy extensions make you a lot easier to fingerprint.

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Not if you randomize a few things, than your fingerprint keeps geeting unique but different each time !