Rediphile

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[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't understand paying for streaming media at all... but I'm from the before times.

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago (7 children)

So do you feel the naming was inherently misleading which led you astray? Because incognito mode absolutely kept things 'sneaky' in terms of hiding the things I look up from other people who use the same computer. Which is specifically what Google said it would do and showed examples of in TV commercials. And it definitely did (and still does) that.

I'm also struggling to understand what you feel you 'trusted' Google on exactly. What did they tell you that you believed but, as it turns out, was not true?

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago

I can bitch about chrome all day long... but none of that bitching will be about incognito mode as that was and continues to be an useful feature that did exactly what I expected it to do. Everything it said it did, it did.

Just because people made up their own imaginary ideas about what they think it does isn't really Google's fault. If people think snorkels allow them to scuba dive and then drown, I'm not about to blame the snorkel maker that wrote 'diving googles and snorkel' on the packaging.

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 months ago (11 children)

The amount of words needed to fully explain this to tech illiterate idiots would be so many that those idiots would just argue they cannot be expected to read all of it. These people already do this with the terms + conditions documents they agree to.

Incognito mode did every single thing it said it did and behaved exactly as I expected from day one. Is there a single user here who actually was surprised by how it worked? Did anyone honestly think it was like Tor or something? Why? Where did anyone ever get that idea at all?

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 19 points 11 months ago (5 children)

It seems the whole last decade has been focused on dumbing the Internet down for the dumbest 10% of the population. The Internet was better when it was less inclusive.

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago (9 children)

I don't believe it was ever called 'private mode', or am I wrong on this?

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 months ago

Which only has value to the corporation if the people driven there watch ads on said page.

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago

I take a 2min pause of silence over 30 seconds of ads any day.

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 months ago

Capitalism is the problem with capitalism. And It's not an excuse to be shitty, but the cause itself.

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 40 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I think I'll stick to piracy thanks.

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

Thanks, I was finally able to make my colourblind brain see it.

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 19 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Is this one of those things that colourblind people see right through? Because I just see a lady sitting in her vehicle with legs a similar colour to the seat. What am I missing here?

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