It’s a sad reality that streaming services are deleting original films from platforms - here’s everything that’s disappeared from Disney+

It’s too long to abbreviate here. It’s quite surprising what they’ve deleted.

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    2 months ago

    My default browsers, on mobile and desktop, both open incognito/private tabs by default.

    I’ll still click no, or don’t accept, if it pops up, but when a page is shitty like this, I’m not too worried about them collecting data on how I browser this page while reading this one article.

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      2 months ago

      AFAIK, incognito mode will only protect you from reading multiple articles on their site, no difference for a single one.

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        2 months ago

        Incognito mode will basically put all the cookies and other site data into a temp directory.

        So, they can track you across that session as long as you keep it open, like if you went from the article to your banking or online shopping websites.

        But, once you close out of that session, that directory should be cleared.

        Just make sure you don’t use incognito or private modes with a bunch of sites, at the same time, that you don’t want to share information between.

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          2 months ago

          Or just use Firefox with enhanced protection turned on. Websites become pretty containerized. Incognito mode just becomes a “don’t save this in my history” thing.

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            2 months ago

            No… Containers are just sandboxed normal browsing sessions.

            The cookies and other site data they gather, will remain and able to track your browsing habits within that container, until you clear it. But it can be sustained between browsing sessions, for months or years at a time.

            They’re very useful, and I highly recommend using them, but they’re nowhere near as convenient as opening up a single incognito tab to read a shitty article on a shitty website. Once I’m done reading it, all I have to do is close that incognito session, return to Lemmy, rinse and repeat.

            Do whatever works best for you, but just be aware that you seem to be under some important misconceptions about what data is saved between different types of browsing sessions, or how certain privacy features work.

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              2 months ago

              I wasn’t talking about Containers though. I was under the impression that Enhanced Tracking Protection severely hampers cross-domain tracking.

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                2 months ago

                Let me rephrase that: I am talking about containers, but more specifically about the fact that Firefox now sandboxes every domain within it’s own little container, if you enable the proper options. Yes, your behavior on said site will persist until you clear your session data, but it will not follow you to other websites.