# Need a one time very small favor from someone who doesn't know me
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-one-time-very-small-favor-from-someone-who-doesnt-know-me/920844
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 17, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-one-time-very-small-favor-from-someone-who-doesnt-know-me/920844 "2020-09-17T15:31:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@carlotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlotta)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-one-time-very-small-favor-from-someone-who-doesnt-know-me/920844/1 "2020-09-17T15:31:26Z")
I just need to make sure the facebook link I want to put on my business cards for my very small time side hustle is correct. I want this checked by someone who is not already my facebook friend and with a computer I haven’t already used to go there. I can’t, off the top of my head, figure out a person in my real life that meets these criteria that I feel like asking a favor of.
So I just need a doper who will send me a private message. I will send you a message back with the facebook link as I plan to put it on my business card. That person will type that link into a browser and tell me what comes up when they do that. Then I will send a message with my eternal thanks and gratitude.
If you’re willing to do this, send me a message!
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### Author:  [@tofor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tofor)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2020, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-one-time-very-small-favor-from-someone-who-doesnt-know-me/920844/2 "2020-09-17T15:48:13Z")
Done.
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### Author:  [@carlotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlotta)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2020, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-one-time-very-small-favor-from-someone-who-doesnt-know-me/920844/3 "2020-09-17T15:50:40Z")
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2020, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-one-time-very-small-favor-from-someone-who-doesnt-know-me/920844/4 "2020-09-17T16:20:51Z")
Looks like you got it taken care of, but going to your link in a private/incognito window would work as well. Bonus points for using a different browser as well.
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### Author:  [@carlotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlotta)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2020, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-one-time-very-small-favor-from-someone-who-doesnt-know-me/920844/5 "2020-09-17T16:22:19Z")
Thanks for the tip!
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2020, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-one-time-very-small-favor-from-someone-who-doesnt-know-me/920844/6 "2020-09-19T16:07:03Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> Looks like you got it taken care of, but going to your link in a private/incognito window would work as well. Bonus points for using a different browser as well.
I’m not sure that’s true. Private does a nice job of ensuring no record of the browsing _is left on your local PC_.
I do not know that it prevents authentication to the server. Which might mean the OP would see the results of that link as her logged-in self, not as a random unknown nobody.
Considering the main use case for private mode is porn, and many such sites require a login (or so I’m told), I think it’s real unlikely that private mode would block her login. And depending on how the rest of her auto-logging-in gizmos & settings are configured she may never see the login done invisibly on her behalf.
Bottom line: private mode covers your tracks on your PC and only on your PC. Everybody else in the chain, including any advertisers on the target site still know what ~~you~~ your computer did. Whether any of those agents already have enough external info to tie your computer back to you as a person is unknowable.