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Re:MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading by brohee on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @02:09PM (#16747436)
By sandboxing, e.g. localStorage fully functional but deleted at the end of the session...
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Re:MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading by 2fifty3 on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @02:21PM (#16747554)
Mozilla recently released containerized tabs[0], I imagine the next logic step is building containerized Private Browsing Mode

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

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Re:MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading by Paul-ish on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @02:43PM (#16747795)
My understanding is that things actually went the other way. Private browsing came first, then the same approach was used to create more labels than just "private" and not "private". I think more features may be turned off in private browsing mode though.
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Re:MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading by m-p-3 on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @08:54PM (#16750909)
I use multiple computers daily and not having those synced with my Firefox account is a pain in the ass.
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