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    • bierkaese
      bierkaese last edited by bierkaese

      (...) Private browser mode not private

      The next surprise awaited us when analyzing the data traffic:
      Even in private browser mode, Microsoft Edge reports accessed URLs to a manufacturer's server.
      c't also observed this behavior in Opera, so you never really surf privately here. Opera also attracted attention with its included advertising extensions, for example from Amazon. (...)

      (https://www.heise.de/news/Browser-im-Privacy-Check-Vorbild-Brave-Mogelpackung-Edge-6109532.html)

      => opera - please comment on this (= that's a disaster!)

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      • leocg
        leocg Moderator Volunteer @bierkaese last edited by

        @bierkaese Private Windows/Mode in browsers is for local privacy, for the user to hide her/his surfing habits from those who may have access to her/his Opera installation, her/his computer.

        The original start page in private window clearly shows what it hides and what it doesn't.

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        • bierkaese
          bierkaese @leocg last edited by

          @leocg
          what a stupid, helpless comment! Understood what I had written? hardly think so! The test is clear in its statement. As an "answer" comes just a very bad text module - which shows that nothing was understood.
          Congratulations Opera - to such employees...

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          • leocg
            leocg Moderator Volunteer @bierkaese last edited by

            @bierkaese First, I don't work for Opera. Second, yes I understood what you wrote and I keep what I said.

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            • bierkaese
              bierkaese @leocg last edited by

              @leocg
              why so sensitive? then I was quite right, apparently!
              that you work for opera, I have claimed at no point, read - understand - then answer! Is always better...
              Look at the test, it's self-explanatory, actually! Similarly, a test recently at Kuketz-blog - in the statement even clearer. Since it needs something more than such meaningless, clearly evasive text modules!

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              • leocg
                leocg Moderator Volunteer @bierkaese last edited by

                @bierkaese The text doesn't say anything unknown or secret, it's more of a clickbait article.

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                • Schneider67
                  Schneider67 @leocg last edited by

                  @leocg
                  This Browser is a privacy-disaster......

                  https://www.kuketz-blog.de/opera-datensendeverhalten-desktop-version-browser-check-teil13/

                  Regards

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