276
383
u/healzsham 3d ago
No but actually how in the great green fuck are so many people under the impression incognito is for anything other than not having to clear your history after porn.
232
u/Merry_Dankmas 2d ago
It's good for watching that one YouTube video that pops up in your feed that has nothing to do with your normal tastes and are interested in but don't want to corrupt your algorithm either by watching it on your account.
But mainly it is in fact porn.
26
u/healzsham 2d ago
I guess, but my autoplay really likes to push the ostensibly AI, super low effort trash on me, so I have to clean out my history fairly often anyways.
5
u/Moldy_Teapot 2d ago
YouTube can and does track your viewing history when you're signed out/in "privacy mode"/across browsers.
14
4
5
u/andrewsad1 2d ago
It's really helpful for preventing tab overflow too
I could care less if anyone knows that I'm looking up the capitol of Egypt, I just know that I ain't closing that tab manually
1
u/arghya_333 ☣️ 2d ago
I read my hentai on a different browser profile, since I like to favorite and bookmark stuff. Incognito is for the times you do not want to add stuff into your browser. Important since I like to occasionally look and search for stuff in my history, which is easier if it isn't too cluttered.
1
u/CreateArtCriticism 2d ago
Found the non-coder lmfao
1
1
u/cleavetv 2d ago
You telling me you don't want 180 versions of how to concatenate a string in C++ in your google search history?
1
u/CreateArtCriticism 1d ago
Ya or just if you're deploying or testing literally any single front end functionality lol
212
u/offasick1 3d ago
incognito? i’m an adult
257
u/Deskfan45 3d ago
Real men pin Xvideos to their start screen.
60
25
9
u/Mekelaxo 3d ago
I use incognito to avoid targeted adds
5
u/CptMuffinator 3d ago
I use ad blockers(uBlock Origin) to avoid targeted ads
6
u/Mekelaxo 3d ago
I mean, it's not that I don't want targeted adds at all, but sometimes there are searches that I don't want influencing my algorithm
1
u/arghya_333 ☣️ 2d ago
Same. I almost never watch videos on youtube in my account unless I am not subscribed to them. I watch stuff in incognito, and if I like their videos I subscribe and watch other videos on my account.
14
u/clevermotherfucker 3d ago
that’s not real men, that’s porn addicts
-4
u/Hamtier 2d ago
it is nearly the same thing
not all real men are porn addicts but all porn addicts are real men!
5
1
3
u/DeficiencyOfGravitas 3d ago
Hey bro lemme use your desktop for a sec, I just need to google something real quick.
1
u/Baldazar666 2d ago
Ever heard of separate desktops? How about guest windows accounts?
2
u/user_428 2d ago
"Let me google something real quick"
"Sure, I'll just first log out and log back in and open you a browser."
0
u/Baldazar666 2d ago
You press windows+tab and you click once. Done. Alternatively you press windows+L and you click once.
Next time try googling before you type some nonsense again.
1
u/Manwithbanana 2d ago
Everyone has phones, who the fuck asks to google on someone elses PC? Besides fringe cases in school.
93
u/bluedhift 3d ago
Some of you all mfs?
55
8
3
u/Spanker_of_Monkeys 1d ago
Also
the Chrome
This might be the most illiterate shit meme I've ever seen get 10k+ upvotes
2
1
57
u/Metroidman 3d ago
Idk what im more insulted by the idea of using incognito or the idea of using chrome
54
27
u/Outcast_Outlaw 3d ago
Incognito is only to hide what you do from your parents or partner. Your fbi agent can still see what you're doing.
31
u/Beavisisadumbass 3d ago
So my fbi agent knows I ask stupid questions through incognito so I don't have to manually remove them from my history
13
2
u/DarthHead43 Too dank for school 2d ago
I know, that's why after I finish I don't shut the tab for a few minutes until my agent can finish too
9
9
14
8
u/MW2Konig 3d ago
I think that if it happens my social reputation goes negative and i will have to resort to the "reset life" method
3
6
u/StandardN02b 3d ago
"Now we are all gonna review OP's navigation history to judge if he is realy deserving of capital punishment."
"Your honor, I'd like to plead guilty."
4
u/danfay222 rm -rf / 3d ago
This is a great example of a place where “y’all” is not interchangeable with “you all”
6
3
3
3
2
u/NeoIsJohnWick ☣️ 2d ago
Incognito mode is only there for your browser to not store the sites you visited.
Your ISP and authorities can still see what you were surfing.
3
u/Sohcahtoa82 2d ago
Your ISP and authorities can still see what you were surfing.
Not entirely.
At best, the only information they have is the sites you're visiting. They can't read the data you're sending/receiving from those sites.
So they could see you're on xvideos, but they can't tell you're watching Mexican trans midget porn.
2
u/RemoteButtonEater 2d ago
One of my favorite apocalypse ideas is a release of a public, searchable index of everyone's browser and search history. Society ender for sure
2
2
u/Excellent_Set_232 2d ago
Gotta have browser history to look back on in post nut clarity. It’s like remembering cringe moments from your childhood but it was 45 seconds ago.
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
u/ventingandcrying 2d ago
We all got those gems in our brains that we can’t google no matter how many hyper specific details we remember so bring it!
1
1
1
u/RageQuittingGamer 2d ago
Firefox with uBlock and a good vpn. If you use anything less that's on you.
1
1
1
u/AstronomerStandard 2d ago
Perks of living alone is no longer having to use that shit. I just type "p" in my browser and watch all the suggestions unfold
1
1
1
u/Spanker_of_Monkeys 1d ago
What the fuck does "wrapped" mean.
Also does anyone seriously think "incognito" hides your history from your ISP?
1
1
u/ThingNumberPi I have crippling depression 3d ago
Technically your job or school could do that, if they have the budget for it.
-2
1.2k
u/Aloneforrever 3d ago
Bold of you to assume that i use incognito