Private Windows -- WHY?
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I use especially to get into other accounts, for example: I have two Microsoft and two Google accounts, I do not like to log my two Google accounts, so my main account is always open, as well as the main account from Microsoft! So I use private mode to get into my two secondary accounts, especially for storing files in OneDrive and Google Drive, so when I need to upload to either account, I open OneDrive and Google Drive in private mode, upload and close the window! I honestly just find this useful for me! I use these two functions!
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@juniorsilva30 said in Private Windows -- WHY?:
I use especially to get into other accounts, for example: I have two Microsoft and two Google accounts, I do not like to log my two Google accounts, so my main account is always open, as well as the main account from Microsoft! So I use private mode to get into my two secondary accounts, especially for storing files in OneDrive and Google Drive, so when I need to upload to either account, I open OneDrive and Google Drive in private mode, upload and close the window! I honestly just find this useful for me! I use these two functions!
I've used it often because my brother needs to log in to some websites on my laptop. I almost always take my computer with me, while his laptop stays at home half the time; often enough we're at the same place. I don't want my browsers' history to be clogged up with his accounts. (I decided on a different solution recently, to give him his own profile in Chrome, but I was hesitating on that for a while.)
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@formedras So why not, instead, create a separate user account login for your brother on the lappy? Then yours & his stuff are kept entirely separate. I cannot now recall if that's simple in Windows, & have never used Mac, but at least in Linux it's elementary to do that.
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@steffie It's killer simple in Windows, but it consumes a fair amount of disk space, as well.
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@ayespy Were i a certain type of person, i might take this info as yet another opportunity to smugly mock Windows & further decry its inferiority to Linux. However, given that i am palpably not that certain type of person, the thought never came even remotely near entering my consciousness.
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@Steffie No need to state the obvious
But since I am that type of person, the only thing where Windows beats Linux is installed base on the desktop. I love that I need to explicitly state the desktop part
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Oh, how can you not understand that?! For me, the Private Windows are like the most essential feature! I don't share my devices with anyone (PC, tablet & phone - I use PWs on all the three of them), so I don't really need to hide my history from my friends / relatives / cats / whatever. Then why on earth do I use them?
- I used to clear my browser's cache (incl. history, cookies, etc.) on a regular basis every couple of months (for various reasons, like keeping the browser clean, to avoid issues with some websites, to get rid of stuff that broke my autocomplete entries, etc.). It was years ago - then Opera introduced Private Tabs (I still miss Private Tabs!!! Oh, how I miss them! ) and it was like a salvation! I've started using private tabs (and then private windows) to do almost all of the stuff that I didn't need the "regular" tabs/window for. Hence, I haven't cleared my browser's cache in ages!
- To avoid tracking. Yes, I'm aware of that "digital footprint" mumble jumble or whatever (actually, I know a little bit more about it; it's just not that important right now). I'm avoiding the tracking from companies that use the data to bombard me with ads for products & services that I recently searched for or that I "might be interested in" (remarketing). Private windows are very efficient at this.
- To avoid tracking. Oh, did I mention it twice? I use a couple of websites that send me offers based on the things that I was searching for. I don't want to share that information with them. The private windows have proven themselves to be super efficient at that.
- To log in to accounts on websites that I have multiple accounts for and I never log off of them in my main window.
- To keep my history, cache & storage clean from stuff that is left there by websites that I visit only occasionally or incidentally.
- To keep my autocomplete suggestion list clean & tidy.* Wrong autocomplete suggestions are probably one of the most annoying things these days...
- To keep my YouTube's history of watched videos clear of videos that I actually watch, but don't want them to be used by YouTube to suggest me even more of these videos. Yes, for me YouTube is probably the most often visited website when it comes to PW.
- If you were a web developer, then you would probably appreciate private windows more... There's just too much to explain.
Basically, I do almost all of the stuff in private windows. I don't have the 3rd party cookies blocking enabled because it breaks too many websites. Private windows are much better at this task. I use some extensions to block tracking, but again - it's not as efficient as using private windows. And they don't break any sites.
* well, almost...
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Some online newspapers limit the amount of articles that you can read per month. Open them in a private tab and the limit is gone. Stupid cookies.
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I think it's pretty clear... i am in a minority. Fair enough. I can accept that.
Thank you all for your contributions.
I wish you all Happy PW'ing [in a totally non-ironic way, aber natรผrlich... muhahahaha].
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@purgatori This sounds unsual. Maybe some extensions block comments which are not enabled in private mode?
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@pafflick said:
I don't really need to hide my history from my friends / relatives / cats / whatever. Then why on earth do I use them?
Great list. I also do not need at all to hide my browsing, so I never used this feature, but you just gave a couple of reasons to try it out. Thank you.
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@steffie said:
Historically, remind me how many wars, invasions, murders, rapes, enslavement etc were initiated & perpetuated by women?
Correct. But it is also very, very rare for women to be in position to do that, so it is hard to be sure. And I am not sure humanity will become better because men and women share more equally; more likelly it will be the other way around. (men and women will share more equally because humanity became better)
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@rkzn While rare, there is statistical evidence. In Europe between the 15th and 20th centuries, queens were statistically more likely to participate in war than were kings. In modern democracies, female leaders have also waged war. Chandrika Kumaratunga, Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, all sent thousands of troops to kill and be killed. Hillary Clinton, though not a head of state, ardently advocated for violent intervention in Libya when she was SecState.
It's a repeatedly-proved fact that women are usually more collaborative, less antagonistic, more cooperative, less aggressive than men in management positions. Female heads of state face slightly different pressures than do corporate managers, both internally and externally. An assumption that a woman must be "weak" may encourage aggressors or rivals to challenge them under circumstances where they would not challenge a male leader. This can essentially force the female leader to respond with force, actualizing a clash that might not have occurred under a supposedly "strong" male leader. That doesn't make the woman aggressive. It makes her unwilling to back down - an admirable trait.
So one never knows. As you noted, humanity may well have to become better, elevate more women to power, and accord them equal respect to men, before we know what the ultimate consequence of gender-equality in power may be. It may also not be a chicken-or-egg calculation, but rather a chicken-egg-chicken-egg-chicken-egg thing. Each may lead to the other.
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@rkzn said in Private Windows -- WHY?:
But it is also very, very rare for women to be in position to do that
Patriarchy sucks.
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@steffie Well, Duuh!
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@ayespy Duh for you, duh for me, but sadly the antithesis of duh for countless mouth-breathing knuckle-draggers all over the world. Once these Neanderthals are out of the way, women can get on with the job of domination, repression, jobs for the girls, oppression, religious dogma, murder, violence, war, invasion etc... it's our turn! The difference is, we'll do it with style & panache.
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@steffie See, you've got me there. I never realized I was in a struggle for dominion. Unprepared for battle, I suppose I am ordained to lose...
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@ayespy Humans have a lot to answer for, but at least one good thing they did do was to invent irony.
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@steffie Surely, you jest...
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@morg42 I've told you before, don't call me Shirley.
We have to get him to a hospital.
What is it, doctor?
It's a big building with lots of people, but that's not important now.