Mozilla Private Browsing: stats released!

meghatronic said:
https://www.google.com/history always ***** me off. I keep suspending/pausing/deleting it. But it always comes back.

Besides, not like they're not storing it anyway - just not showing it you.
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Paranoid much. You're doing something wrong if it's not storing your settings because I turned my history off back when the feature came out and to this day remains off even on my Android phone too.

fidget said:
Not that "private" then is it?
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2StepSteve said:
Wait.. I thought it was private?

They are just as bad as MS.

:p
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It is private since your browsing while in this mode are exactly that.... Mozilla just count how many activations of the Private Browsing Mode there have been, nothing invasive about that?
 
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That's hilarious. Especially when you know exactly what's going on for a lot of those sessions :p























... browsing BBC news, of course. I find about 10 minutes is generally long enough for me to catch up on the days events.
 
Khaaan! said:
Paranoid much. You're doing something wrong if it's not storing your settings because I turned my history off back when the feature came out and to this day remains off even on my Android phone too.
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Well I keep having to turn it off. It now says:

"Your web history has been paused.
This service will not collect any history until you choose to resume".

It will magically 'switch back on' in less than a month. About 5 times I've had to 'pause' it.

My point, however, was Google are still grooming this information. You're naïve if you doubt that. I'm not paranoid (in that regard).



I really don't want people knowing what I do in private mode. Reading the Daily Mail is my own... wait. ****!
 
All providers collect information, statistical or otherwise. My point is people faff over it as if they're being violated up the anus with butter being used as lube.

Nein.
 
Indeed.

My point still stands.

Not a single major report has come about so far proving that all this so called information collection as of late has (or will) resulted in hundreds/thousands of people being exploited in one way or another.

It's all a bit of media huff and sure people joke about it but some people actually take it too seriously.

As you can imagine, I don't believe in this kind of mild-hysteria about privacy.
 
They're collecting the data from people who opted to let Mozilla collect it through installing Test Pilot and agreeing to participate in the particular project (IIRC in the Fx4 betas it's already installed; you still have to agree to run the study and TP lets you see what will be uploaded before it is so you have at least a couple of times to back out).

The second sentence tells you that...
 
Who cares if google know what you are up to on the internet. Its to hide your browsing history from people that you might not want to know what you have been visiting. Google wont care about you looking at porn, the wife might.
 
tolien said:
They're collecting the data from people who opted to let Mozilla collect it through installing Test Pilot and agreeing to participate in the particular project (IIRC in the Fx4 betas it's already installed; you still have to agree to run the study and TP lets you see what will be uploaded before it is so you have at least a couple of times to back out).

The second sentence tells you that...
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Indeed. It's all opt in.

For the curious.
 
Those stats just prove that it's not just used for porn... :p

Lunchtime and the end of the day when you want to slack off and do other things. The 10pm session is blatently porn though.
 
i'm amazed lunchtime was most used time. surely this has to be buying gifts and not from a 10 minute snake shake?

also in regards to google collecting data. i'm glad they do. they improve the services they offer to be more what i want at no cost to me. what can be wrong with that? :)
 
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