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!
“Teaching crabs how to read”
Submitted 3 weeks ago by cannedtuna@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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wraekscadu@vargar.org 3 weeks ago
adarza@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
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.
Flagstaff@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
My problem is that I rarely ever know if the “random junk” that I look up may be useful to return to later.
Blurntout@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
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
Viceversa@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well, at the start the feed isn’t empty too
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Yeah… my youtube throws them into the shorts every now and then. It’s just fucking annoying. You’re youtube, they’re not even going to show anything anyway stick to the shit I actually click on.
FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Incognito mode ftw
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I have straight up not used incognito since I was maybe 13 years old. Are yall really just handing off your devices to other people?
ollie@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
i use it a lot, my parents are religious and thus i gotta stay safe when looking at anything remotely queer-supportive
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I use it regularly for “this isn’t something I’m going to be looking at/for again” type searches
RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
I mostly use incognito mode for google image search so that they can’t place a cookies on me
ceenote@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Basically, only delete your browser history if the reality is worse than what people will imagine.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If reality is worse than what people could imagine, you need to unplug.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Or – get this! – you can use a private tab/window for the really bad stuff, so it won’t get saved in your browser history. Then you can still have a browser history full of benign things, rather than an empty one.
Also very useful: Firefox has a feature of [Menu --> History --> Clear Recent History…] – that allows you to delete any trace of sites you’ve visited within a given timeframe, with choices of 1 hour, 2 hours, 4 hours, or all day. If it’s something older than that, you can also browse through your history and manually delete anything objectionable.
guy@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
My browsing history would probably be more boring than what people would imagine. But it’s my browser history, eyes off!
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, my browser history is significantly more tame than my bookshelf these days
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Or maybe you could just stay out of stuff that’s none of your damn business.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t remember the last time I had search/browsing history enabled.
hansolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Seriously. Only 1 of 6 browsers I use keep any history.
daggermoon@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
Unless you use Librewolf
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
Librewolf can be trained to remember some pages if you want them to.
daggermoon@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Paddzr@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
One will get you fired, the other makes it just that bit harder to prove.
GutterRat42@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Just clear the relevant domain out of the history.
Not empty. Yet gone.
wrinkle2409@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
False
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yeah wtf is this bullshit? You either find “minions but purple plus miniature vore butthole no laughing sex avocado and pineapple insertion” vs …nothing.
HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
… I came in to make a joke like, “Nothing is a vast improvement over my history,” but this was so much more colorful
MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I tried to teach my grandpa’s crabs how to read but he smacked me and told me to stop talking to his pubes
QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve thought about this. I think the next anonymity products will be LLM agents designed to obfuscate.
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
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
phar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Back in the late '90s I used to clear it and then visit a bunch of BS safe sites really quickly just to fill over here some garbage so my mom wouldn’t see
gibmiser@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah i got burned by recently opened documents back when we used to still download and save porn
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Incidentally that’s how I discovered porn. Older brother forgot it and I thought hey, new movie
brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That got me too. Always cleaned it after.
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Unless it’s always empty forever and always.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
I periodically clear my history and rare go online without a vpn.
kamen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Its hints to more, with notes of shame
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Mine just wipes every time I close the browser
valar@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Same, I don’t really do “browser history”