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.
“Teaching crabs how to read”
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kamen@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Mine just wipes every time I close the browser
valar@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Same, I don’t really do “browser history”
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I don’t remember the last time I had search/browsing history enabled.
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 hour ago
Seriously. Only 1 of 6 browsers I use keep any history.
wraekscadu@vargar.org 1 day ago
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!
adarza@piefed.ca 1 day 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 11 hours ago
My problem is that I rarely ever know if the “random junk” that I look up may be useful to return to later.
Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
Just clear the relevant domain out of the history.
Not empty. Yet gone.
Blurntout@lemmy.ca 1 day 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 23 hours ago
Well, at the start the feed isn’t empty too
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 19 hours 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.
daggermoon@piefed.world 13 hours ago
Unless you use Librewolf
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 9 hours ago
Librewolf can be trained to remember some pages if you want them to.
daggermoon@piefed.world 9 hours 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.
FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Incognito mode ftw
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 1 day 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?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I use it regularly for “this isn’t something I’m going to be looking at/for again” type searches
ollie@pawb.social 12 hours ago
i use it a lot, my parents are religious and thus i gotta stay safe when looking at anything remotely queer-supportive
RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip 20 hours ago
I mostly use incognito mode for google image search so that they can’t place a cookies on me
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I’ve thought about this. I think the next anonymity products will be LLM agents designed to obfuscate.
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 hour 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
ceenote@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Basically, only delete your browser history if the reality is worse than what people will imagine.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If reality is worse than what people could imagine, you need to unplug.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 day 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 22 hours 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 3 hours ago
Yeah, my browser history is significantly more tame than my bookshelf these days
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 9 hours ago
I periodically clear my history and rare go online without a vpn.
Paddzr@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
One will get you fired, the other makes it just that bit harder to prove.
wrinkle2409@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
False
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 8 hours 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.
MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca 1 day 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 22 hours ago
phar@lemmy.world 1 day 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 1 day ago
Yeah i got burned by recently opened documents back when we used to still download and save porn
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 23 hours ago
Incidentally that’s how I discovered porn. Older brother forgot it and I thought hey, new movie
brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That got me too. Always cleaned it after.
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
Unless it’s always empty forever and always.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Or maybe you could just stay out of stuff that’s none of your damn business.