Logged out

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Post by patwalls » Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 12:26 PM UTC

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Post by marcinzm » Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 1:09 PM UTC

I have a curated list of subreddits I follow on reddit without any of the large default meme-spam ones. Without that reddit is basically useless to me as I don't need even more meme-spam in my life. Same with twitter, I use it to follow some engineers and artists while avoiding the mainstream accounts that have no relevance to me. I honestly want to know what these people are up so as it's usually either beautiful or interesting or insightful.

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Post by liammonahan » Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 1:12 PM UTC

Even if you log out don’t they still know who you are based on IP or other fingerprints to serve relevant content? Anecdotally I’ve been on online shopping sites that will email me my cart to ask if I want to check out even when I’m not logged in, so it seems unlikely that you’ll be any more anonymous by signing out.

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Post by Darky » Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 1:13 PM UTC

Having a browsable & searchable history of "every youtube video ever watched on any device" is something pretty valuable to me.

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Post by gruez » Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 1:15 PM UTC

This is pretty easy to do with firefox, just use the multi account containers and the temporary containers extension. During normal browsing you use temporary containers, which keeps you logged out and avoids anonymous session tracking. If you need to log in all you need to do is right click the tab and reopen in your dedicated "logged in" container

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Post by jabroni_salad » Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 1:15 PM UTC

My tweetdeck layout is by far the most effective way to use twitter. My youtube subscription page is my first port of call. Reddit.... its just highly vexing if you aren't logged in.

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Post by gruez » Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 1:16 PM UTC

Darky wrote: post #4

Having a browsable & searchable history of "every youtube video ever watched on any device" is something pretty valuable to me.

Just use your local browsing history?

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Post by dan_can_code » Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 1:17 PM UTC

gruez wrote: post #7

Darky wrote: post #4

Having a browsable & searchable history of "every youtube video ever watched on any device" is something pretty valuable to me.

Just use your local browsing history?

That doesn't cover the 'on any device' requirement.

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Post by gruez » Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 1:18 PM UTC

liammonahan wrote: post #3

Even if you log out don’t they still know who you are based on IP or other fingerprints to serve relevant content? Anecdotally I’ve been on online shopping sites that will email me my cart to ask if I want to check out even when I’m not logged in, so it seems unlikely that you’ll be any more anonymous by signing out.

IP: use commercial VPN so you blend in with thousands of other users

fingerprinting: use firefox and turn on resistfingerprinting

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Post by amadeuspagel » Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 1:27 PM UTC

Youtube's recommendation algorithm is one of the wonders of the modern world. I discovered so many incredible videos that I would never have searched for and that no one would have recommended to me, thanks to it.