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Give users a true incognito mode - Privacy improvement
Hey NikolinoDE, thanks for taking your time to write this answer, but I don't agree with you.
Even with a VPN or by changing IP address websites can still track you in a different number of ways: the encryption is not a problem here and I'm not addressing that at all so your a, c, d and e point are not exactly the answer to what I'm asking.
This is just an improvement to the actual flawled implementation of the Incognito mode: if I visit the same website Incognito or not right now makes little to no difference privacy wise. And - at least IMO - it should not be like that: Incognito mode should fulfill its purpose to give the users a "clean" session that does not have the same fingerprint as the main user. And not because people should/would use it for something illegal or to trick their bosses (they'd be fool to think this would help them), but because a true Incognito mode should give users some kind of "clean space" totally separated by the main profile.
It's pretty obvious to whoever knows a little bit about this topic that this feature is not a solution made to be anonymous on the web or to be un-trackable: there's other tool, other browsers and other ways to accomplish such things and I agree this is not the purpose for Edge.
Anyway, thanks for the answer: I appreciated you took the time to answer me.
Hello, thank you for taking the time to read my comment, I am honored.
At the same time, I wanted to address a few things that you noted in your comment.
The VPN can be penetrated / cracked / decrypted is clear to everyone, but this is about the effort (money and work), as in most IT cases.
The fact that the other points do not fit exactly or not completely is also caused by the viewer's angle. It is not out of hand that incognito mode has a very bad reputation in society. It is referred to as spy mode, porn mode, hacker mode, etc. by some on the Internet. It also upsets people who have no idea about the Internet.
It is not from nowhere that the EU GDPR (European General Data Protection Regulation) is a bit broad in terms of interpretation with the incognito mode and the investigative authorities. The deletion of cookies, the use of the incognito / private mode of your browser, or the use of another browser leads to data being collected again, due to EU GDPR (Art 6 EU GDPR Paragraph 1 lit a (consent) and / or f -justified interest- of the GDPR). Basically, it is also not quite clear from a legal point of view, what, who, when is allowed.
There are so many active participants in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework so that the correct and secure data transfer of personal data is regulated, which one has entered that lobbyists want to trip up each other. That is only a small part of the legal perspective. Not that I am misunderstood, lobbyism is not bad per view, on the contrary, in some cases, a blessing. But the relationship has to be right.
Since it does not have the best reputation in the various societies around the world, I am not surprised that the incognito mode only currently exists because some IT-knowing people have the need to be able to see it.
In my opinion it will continue to drift apart from Nader and widen the gap between society, lobbyism and incognito advocates so that the incognito mode, if it is not painted differently, will disappear from all common navigation programs. For the very simple reason, "so few, use it".
To put it briefly, I am going to riot again, my request would be to change the incognito mode!
It should be a simple visual mode.
You should be able to navigate, but only be able to see and only where the website operator wants it. A kind of “see mode”, maybe also as “watch mode” or WYSYCT “What you see you cannot touch”. No matter how you baptize the child, it should be totally private but with restrictions as the website operator would like and at the same time no significant movements should take place, such as bank account, pages where a password is required, so also what is important for the investigative authorities.
So much could be done or incorporated in this direction, I could write a book about additional possibilities with the dubbed “watch mode”, it would be a win-win situation for everyone (Internet site operators could earn money, users would be more secure , Internet navigation programs could ... .psssttt ... that's enough in advance, the rest only with Microsoft if they are interested..hahaha.
I think that such a realization in the legal and in the technical area will be very positively accepted by most.
Maybe this one idea would be for Microsoft to be a bit further ahead with Edge than the others.
However, your reflection on this topic gave me the starting point and I would like to thank you for that.
I wish you and everyone else with readers a nice weekend.
If reading this up to now has not been of interest to you, I would like to apologize for the time I have taken.
Regards,
Niklino
I know that I don't know (Socrates)