Oh man that's annoying! The funny part is that it annoys especially those who are careful about their data. So it is basically an incentive for being loose with privacy. Long ago I used set this setting in my parent's browser but they simply could not stand it.
> ... at the cost of an additional button you have to press every time you have to visit any website.
It's the website operator that's choosing to put that button there, and they could easily remove it by choosing to respect user privacy by default. They have clear choices in front of them to improve their user experience.
exactly. I don't get why the need to take away choice of privacy from the user, in hunt of better performance.
I'll gladly send an error report or something similar you mentioned, but please give me right to choose. it might seem a small difference to you, but it means the world to me.
Richard, would it be possible to merge the private mode and personal mode? Right now, it's tagged as incognito and it's not on by default, this should seriously be considered. This thread has seriously become toxic, You.com is just in the beginning stage. We can use DuckDuckGo-like model by not tracking users, but instead allow users to set their own country and give search results based on that. Because most normal people will automatically not switch to and use private mode by default and that simply makes you.com non-private. This is a concern almost everyone here and anyone who is serious about privacy would have. I hope to get answers from you soon in-regards to this. Again in-terms of the experience, you.com is unique, but it's potential shouldn't be limited by having privacy is an optional mode, this WILL push people away.
I was looking for the wrong about:config value. While you can't have private browsing mode be the default, it is in fact possible to enable tracking protection outside private browsing mode, so you can get these same benefits (privacy.trackingprotection.enabled in about:config).
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