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Or maybe you could just stay out of stuff that's none of your damn business.
Its hints to more, with notes of shame
I don't remember the last time I had search/browsing history enabled.
Seriously. Only let 1 of 6 browsers I use keep any history.
My browser history (the local one) is for my eyes only... so clearing it would only mean I have to go again about finding a page that I might've forgotten to bookmark.
Just clear the relevant domain out of the history.
Not empty. Yet gone.
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
i use temporary auto-applied containers (via the Temporary Containers Plus extension) to auto-erase data of sites that i dont manually put in a permanent container
Yes
That's very annoying
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
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I have a password database that is secure and offline.
Why the hell would I want my browser to store my passwords/session data?
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I've thought about this. I think the next anonymity products will be LLM agents designed to obfuscate.
I've pondered this a bit. If we lock down akin to china, we'll have to start using plausible deniability. Our encoding will need to be in safe and clear looking datasets, which localLLM probably could push out
Unless you use Librewolf
Librewolf can be trained to remember some pages if you want them to.
Of course, it can do everything Firefox can do if you play around with the settings. I don't think it's a good idea to deviate much from stock though. I use Firedragon now. It's sort of an in-between.
firedragon is an epic name. I might check it out just because of that
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.
My problem is that I rarely ever know if the "random junk" that I look up may be useful to return to later.
and that's where my 1000s of bookmarks came from.
I periodically clear my history and rare go online without a vpn.
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
Even the algorithm shows new stuff sometimes just to see if it sticks. I get makeup and hair videos occasionally even though I'm male in late 30s that never showed any interest in such things.
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aka "If you're innocent, you got nothing to hide"
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