Be Excellent To Each Other

How do the privacy setting work on browsers?

I know they don't record cookies or save in histories.

Do they disguise themselves, can you get on to sites if banned through work, etc....

I am just curious....

It's just a different local profile - so your cookies, search hitory, autocomplete etc are stored in a different place and won't show up when you use your regular session. Has no affect on traffic filters whatsoever.

Fuck's sake Craster. Leave some room for expansion and speculation next time, yeah? That's not how BEEX works.

Your mum needs to be allowed room for expansion.

I expanded into her face.

Chrome doesn't store cookies or history at all, I think ie is the same - or rather all cookies are session cookies, so close the private window and they're lost. I'm not sure but if it were me I'd enforce first-party-only too.

That's not quite right - it's a different local profile every time you use it, assuming you've got no other private windows open. When the last instance is closed, all the data it contains is (or certainly should be) removed.

They're not session cookies, it just blows them away on exit. A browser can't tell a web server to change what type of cookie it issues.

Unless you meant 'cookies that only last for a session', rather than 'session cookies', of course.

It doesn't block third-party cookies. Privacy mode isn't really about not exposing your privacy to third parties, it's about not exposing your browsing history to your wife.

That's what I said. Isn't it? Oh - right, yeah. Your next private session doesn't carry on where the last one left off, I guess.

Also note that it can have an effect on browser plugins - most (I suspect all, actually - at least all that you add yourself) aren't able to access a porn mode session unless you specifically let them.

Yeah, I figured that's what you meant, but it's a fairly important difference. Otherwise your wife would only have to start her own private session (double lulz at "private session " and the idea that either of our wives could do that) and lobstertube would be in the favorites.

Guy I used to work with declared the mobile firmware we were working on as useless, as it had no way to delete individual text messages...

'temporary session' is what I meant, yes.

Thanks Craster, I now understand.