On 2015-07-20 3:04 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
I disagree that the feature as it is today is useless but I don't have data
on the usage of the feature one way or another. But note that by default,
when using private browsing, your search history won't show up in your
Google history since the isolation provided prevents Google from associating
the search with your login (unless you log in, of course.)
I definitely don't think that the feature is useless. Because we *do*
use a separate cookiejar in the private browsing window. I think the
story would have been different if we hadn't.
Agreed.
But I will note that people have been asking for more privacy features to be
integrated into private browsing for as long as I remember. It has always
been technical difficulties that have made a lot of such features very
difficult to implement. Now that for example we have the opportunity to
turn tracking protection on inside private browsing, I think we should do
that, but the different features are orthogonal to each other, it is just a
matter of what we show in the user interface. And given the fact that we
phrase the UI as a "private" window, this association does make sense to me.
But for the purposes of this discussion, private browsing and tracking
protection should not be intertwined (even though they will interact.)
I think it'd be great to have a short and clear list of what the
private browsing feature is. I think your wiki page is a great start
to that. It's definitely is short enough that you can read through it
and get an understanding of the current goals.
I think it's also great that your page mention research that has been
done about user expectations so that we can see where user
expectations doesn't match the list of features/goals of what the
feature is.
I don't know of what research has been done here, if any. My impression
on what the users expect is mostly formed by looking at bug reports, and
mentions of this feature in various fora over the years, which is not
really research! So I'm not sure what else I could mention with regards
to that in the wiki page.
I think if we think that question is worth a good answer, we should do
some actual user research on how people perceive what private browsing
is, and not just take our impression as the ultimate answer.
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