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Do you use Private Browsing on computers that aren't yours?

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Personally I do because I'm not comfortable with leaving traces of my computing history behind on random computers in the school, and if I forget to log out of an account (which I see all the damn time) it won't remember the login.

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Depends on the place and what i plan on browsing  

 

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Sometimes. I tend to run CCleaner on all of the machines I use anyway. My info goes away (unless you're a 1337 hacker), and their PC gets cleaned a little as well.

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Depends on the place and what i plan on browsing  

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idk, what am I doing that someone else isn't? My life is just as mundane as everyone else's so I don't see what I'm hiding. However, I won't visit the same sites, like I wouldn't visit LTT because it's a bit nerdy and because I don't know my password.

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well the only computers i use that are not mine are the school one which i only use my email and that i have 2 steo verifacation and before will clear all those that i dont use on a daily basis

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idk, what am I doing that someone else isn't? My life is just as mundane as everyone else's so I don't see what I'm hiding. However, I won't visit the same sites, like I wouldn't visit LTT because it's a bit nerdy and because I don't know my password.

ayy lmao. If I'm on a school computer for any reason I always have an LTT tab open.

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Well... Some friends and i used to put weird horrific shit like, one guy one jar, 2 girls one cup etc.. on all the computers in the school, being the dumb kids we were we thought the admin wouldn't be able to see it was our accounts that were logged in if we used private browsing....

 

We did it to our teachers a lot aswell, they didn't like it. 

 

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ayy lmao. If I'm on a school computer for any reason I always have an LTT tab open.

Yeah, I changed my password specifically so that then I don't go on it at school. I'm re-sitting last year because I spent my frees wasting away on LTT when I should've been doing work :D

 

Although look at me now, meant to be revising History but instead on LTT... The story of my lyf.

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Well... Some friends and i used to put weird horrific shit like, one guy one jar, 2 girls one cup etc.. on all the computers in the school, being the dumb kids we were we thought the admin wouldn't be able to see it was our accounts that were logged in if we used private browsing....

 

We did it to our teachers a lot aswell, they didn't like it. 

What do you mean? Like changed the backgrounds or do google searches of the stuff?

Are computer teacher wanted us to log out 1 or 2 minutes early so that we can log in to the kindergartners accounts which were just Seat and then the number on the monitor in front of you with no password it was a pub account that all grades Prek to 2nd grade or so I think used because they can't remember passwords, anyways someone in my class decided to change most of there backgrounds to things like the exorcist or stuff that would scare the shit out of a little kid, since these were public accounts and this was done from a computer upstairs running multipoint in a classroom there was no record of who was using the computer because we don't have security cams in classrooms only in the halls or computer lab. So to this day we can no longer change are background  because of 1 guy who won't fess up. I've been trying to bypass it for weeks but the best I can do is get to the setting in regedit but I can't change it since I'd need admin privileges.

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no, but i clear my browsing everytime anyways

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No, I don't do anything important unless it's my own computer. I never log into my accounts for anything on computers I don't own.

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Yes, not because of tracking and history concerns though. It's a good way for multiple friends to access their social media accounts etc. on one PC without having to sign each other out first.

 

The added extra's like not returning home to find a colorful FB post I curiously don't remember writing myself, on my wall proclaiming to the world that "I love big black c*cks" because I forgot to sign out is nice too (asshole friends :) ).

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What do you mean? Like changed the backgrounds or do google searches of the stuff?

Are computer teacher wanted us to log out 1 or 2 minutes early so that we can log in to the kindergartners accounts which were just Seat and then the number on the monitor in front of you with no password it was a pub account that all grades Prek to 2nd grade or so I think used because they can't remember passwords, anyways someone in my class decided to change most of there backgrounds to things like the exorcist or stuff that would scare the shit out of a little kid, since these were public accounts and this was done from a computer upstairs running multipoint in a classroom there was no record of who was using the computer because we don't have security cams in classrooms only in the halls or computer lab. So to this day we can no longer change are background  because of 1 guy who won't fess up. I've been trying to bypass it for weeks but the best I can do is get to the setting in regedit but I can't change it since I'd need admin privileges.

We'd just leave it running on one of those websites where it'd loop until you Ctrl alt delete to close it. 

 

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