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> To be clear, when you clear your cookies in your browser, it can make parts of your experience worse. You may have to sign back in to every website, and you may have to reconfigure things. The same will be true here. Your Facebook won't be as good while it relearns your preferences.

That's not a bug, it's a feature! I've had my browser set up to nuke everything on shutdown as far as I can remember. Yes you have to log back for sites you want to interact non-anonymously but I consider it the sane default.

Tracking and privacy aside, you'll likely save some money too as not being logged into shopping sites raises the barrier to ordering pointless crap.




> I've had my browser set up to nuke everything on shutdown as far as I can remember.

I have this and only log into GMail in a private window (I would do the same for FB if I used it). It's a bit of a hassle, especially since I've enabled 2FA, but it's become a habit and not that much of a hassle (I leave the private window open).


I use entirely separate browsers for that. Gmail logged into my primary account gets its own dedicated browser. Nothing else ever gets opened in that browser and it's never used for "regular" browsing.

It's a failsafe against bugs in the private browser implementation and provides a further separation of authenticated vs anonymous.




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