Ask HN: Privacy vs Functionality

4 pointsmanidoraisamy4 comments

Nowadays I hesitate a lot to click links because I get retargeted or watched. For example, I open LinkedIn profiles in incognito mode to avoid notifications even though I get less information. Is it just me or common behaviour?

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The HN community definitely cares more about privacy and security than 99% of 'regular' users so what you describe has a good chance of being common behavior here!

I personally can't be arsed to protect myself, but that's just me- I'm kinda fatalistic and assume that everybody knows everything about me already.

But you'll definitely find a lot of others who are mindful of privacy here.

I wonder if anyone is working on a solution to this problem. It is frustrating having to think about the consequence before clicking on each link.

for some sites I feel that you get more content using incognito. Like in YouTube, by searching logged into my account it returns videos more related to previously seen videos -- which hide more relevant videos.

That's interesting! Youtube moved to Amazon's algorithm to solve this problem by introducing freshness in its recommendation - http://searchengineland.com/google-uses-amazons-algorithm-fo...

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