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minus-squarefeedum_sneedson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up109arrow-down1·8 months agoI’m just using it to prevent my depraved, shameful porn searches from entering my browser’s autocomplete corpus. Learned that one fairly early on.
minus-squareRGB3x3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30arrow-down1·8 months agotyping: 'p… Autocomplete: “YOU WANTED PORNHUB.COM, RIGHT?”
minus-squarevoxel@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·8 months agoeven worse, my university website’s page starts with portal.*
minus-squareslumberlust@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·8 months agoThis is why we visit porkbun every few weeks. We’re not actually registering domains that frequently ;)
minus-squareTriPolarBearz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 months agoA man who never eats pork buns, is never a whole man!
minus-squareEatATaco@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·edit-28 months agoNo, you mean when you’re shopping for presents for your loved ones and you want to keep it a surprise.
minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·8 months agoTHAT ONE!! Ahm. Yes. That one.
minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoWhen I was a kid, porn was the first thing I search for on Google. Imagine my shock when Internet Explorer kept suggesting what I had searched whenever I started typing in the Google search box… It took me a while to understand that it wasn’t Google, it was my browser
minus-squareMonkderDritte@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down28·edit-28 months agoPeople could just use another browser profile, with it’s own set of bookmarks and uBlock in strict mode… Never saw much sense in “incognito” mode.
minus-squareJohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoI use an entirely different browser (vivaldi), that way I can have all the logins and bookmarks and cookies I want and not have to worry about it.
I’m just using it to prevent my depraved, shameful porn searches from entering my browser’s autocomplete corpus. Learned that one fairly early on.
typing: 'p…
Autocomplete: “YOU WANTED PORNHUB.COM, RIGHT?”
even worse, my university website’s page starts with portal.*
This is why we visit porkbun every few weeks. We’re not actually registering domains that frequently ;)
A man who never eats pork buns, is never a whole man!
No, you mean when you’re shopping for presents for your loved ones and you want to keep it a surprise.
THAT ONE!! Ahm. Yes. That one.
When I was a kid, porn was the first thing I search for on Google.
Imagine my shock when Internet Explorer kept suggesting what I had searched whenever I started typing in the Google search box…
It took me a while to understand that it wasn’t Google, it was my browser
People could just use another browser profile, with it’s own set of bookmarks and uBlock in strict mode… Never saw much sense in “incognito” mode.
I use an entirely different browser (vivaldi), that way I can have all the logins and bookmarks and cookies I want and not have to worry about it.