Re:Linux desktop market share over 3%
by Meegul on Friday September 01, 2017 @10:48AM
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I somewhat regularly use Firefox from within the WSL. It's a privacy by obscurity thing for me though.
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Re:Linux desktop market share over 3%
by asdfgadsfgasfdg on Friday September 01, 2017 @11:03AM
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Doesn't that give you an amazingly unique fingerprint?
Seems so. But I meant more privacy on a local machine basis. That is, someone would really need to dig through the filesystem to find browsing information, rather than just looking at the standard locations.
I recognize it's a weak privacy measure, but in my situation it gives me a mostly private browser on a shared user account.
Re:Linux desktop market share over 3%
by asdfgadsfgasfdg on Friday September 01, 2017 @04:09PM
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OK. This sounds like a perfect use for either private browsing mode or another profile with history etc set to false though.
Private browsing wouldn't save any browsing information, which is something I want. Also, using another profile would reveal that the profile exists in the first place. Using the WSL is much more hidden.