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"Inconvenience" is downplaying the impact of not letting adults use incognito mode to search for things.

Yes, right now search engines are only going to blur out images and turn on safe search, but the decision to show or hide information in safe search has alarming grey areas.

Examples of things that might be hidden and which someone might want to access anonymously are services relating to sexual health, news stories involving political violence, LGBTQ content, or certain resources relating to domestic violence.

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Also porn. Let's be honest, all of this energy expenditure is about porn.

is it tho because we have been doing porn since forever and porn is not gatekeeperd by SE at all.

seams like long term slow burn to Gov tendrils just like digital ID and how desperate the example came across as to show any real function, contradictory even.

Pivot, what about the children. small steps and right back on the gradient of slippyslope we are

People search porn in google? Because google is internet itself?

Because it's easier to put your query into the address bar than to open a dedicated search page, and most people use Chrome with the default being Google search.

Absolutely no one searches for porn on Google except if they don't know the URL of an aggregator.

Which that one kid will tell everyone if they don't.

More people than searches for free fonts at least (couldn’t think of a good comparison search term to “Free porn” off the top of my head) https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...

While anyone who wants to ban people looking at porn will be on side with this, the political oomph is probably more from authoritarians who are working towards a digital ID. Anyone who cares about the porn angle would be forced to admit this won't do very much. Anyone who wants to keep the wrong people out of politics would be quietly noting that this is a small but unquestionable win.

Hmm people will go back to using lingerie catalogs or start using LLM prompts?

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