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I think you misread me.

I never thought that these modes were protecting me from anything except those who shared the same pc. Apparently I am the only one who understands the way the internet works and that nothing you do or any software you run on your system can stop every website and server you interact with or that passes on your data packets to the next server from logging everything it can about you.

How do people think that sites like reddit cross check and correlate data from users to find those with multiple accounts that are attempting to evade bans? There is so much data that we don’t even know we are creating.

I’m all for privacy and anonymity when and where it makes sense but it seems like people here have no idea what the difference between the two are and just how difficult it is and how much extra friction it brings to attempt to be completely anonymous and private via a system designed to connect people.

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I’m seeing a lot of people make arguments like this and I just don’t get it. Is your point that its okay for tech companies to prey on the ignorance of nontechnical users? We can’t expect everyone to know everything about every service they interact with.

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You need to step back and actually read what I am saying. You need to also learn a lot more about how the internet works.

Again. Read my entire comment and then give it time to sink in.

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I understand how the internet works but you apparently don’t understand how people work. Normal people have absolutely no concept of how the internet works, they don’t understand what data servers need about them to function, or what a packet is. They need to be explicitly told that even though they’re using a privacy mode Google is still collecting data on them, especially since they’re collecting data even if you are not going to google hosted sites.

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Where did rdyoung say any of this?

What you just did was put words in his mouth;make a straw man.

And factually, browsers explain what their respective private/incognito modes do. People assumed they did something else.

Did these corporations take advantage of that? Yes.

In the end, these users are as much to blame for using a tool and assuming how it functioned.

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I’m the only one…

OK blocked. Come on for real.

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Reread the original comment, and try being nicer. You’re wrong.

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I know what he is saying. There is ways to speak. If he think he is the only one to know (and in the meantime he doesn’t know what i know… ), then its ok for me.

Why he think he is giving me a lessons.
I’ve laughed at the title of the link, like a lot of u… Just the word agree. And even, on the tech side, I’m OK. I’m just sharing… A link…

Not sharing my knowledge here… And there is way to do so. He is the only to know ? OK end of discuss for me

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And I fucking agree on the tech side…

Well.

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Why doesn’t this surprise me?

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