News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public. Parent comment

Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public by lostctown on Monday July 15, 2019 @03:10PM (#20444089)
I wish interfaces were more straight up about their intentions and made it easier to implement account level partitions. For work I love Google's magic tracking effects, but at 1 am, hell no.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public by arwineap on Monday July 15, 2019 @05:32PM (#20445492)
You can have multiple identities in chrome[0], even guest identities.

[0] https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2364824

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public by lostctown on Monday July 15, 2019 @05:48PM (#20445601)
Right. I'm just saying it should be clearer. Ex: I want to have a list of accounts, netflix style, that I'm presented with on an empty chrome window. If in fact multiple identities don't merge data implicitly in anyway than this is just a UI issue.

But I have a hard time believing google truly partitions everything in a multi account setup.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public by mjevans on Monday July 15, 2019 @04:57PM (#20445202)
It would be immensely useful if Google understood that normal people have multiple facades that they use in different contexts. Probably several professional (which project / component was I working on again), private but family friendly (planning gifts for relatives, etc), and private but clearly out there (stuff you don't want to shock 60 year old parents / young kids / etc with) profiles.

Also, for incognito stuff, it'd be nice to have read-only basing on stock profiles related to various activities or people.

[ Parent | on HN ]