I’m sure you know this, but others might not. “Incognito mode” only hides your search history from your own computer / tablet. So other people in your household can’t find it later.
It does ZERO to hide your search history from whichever search engine you used, nor from any government of commercial surveillance. Likewise searches on e-commerce sites (e.g. Amazon). They’ll know you searched for French Maid outfits and Nazi Halloween (yeah sure) costumes. And they’ll happily remind you later at the least convenient times.
The main thing it accomplishes is that I’m logged out when I search. Google’s search history for being logged out is separate than if you’re logged in. I hadn’t thought about ads, but I also never see them. But, in theory, they could use info from incognito mode, yes.
Amazon sounds really stupid about this, though. It should realize that people search logged out for a reason. And it should generally be reluctant to advertise that sort of thing unless the person is already looking for it in that particular session. Seeing ads for that stuff is just going to discourage use of the platform in that market.
And here I thought X Twitter was improving the quality of news delivery under Elmo’s watch. I guess he’s missed the polling and this little hiccup Vivek had. Maybe, I mean hear me out, I know it sounds crazy, but just maybe things aren’t going as well at Twitter as Elmo likes to pretend.
In his latest pronouncement, Elmo tells us why Boeing has been having quality control issues recently. It’s because they have diversity and inclusion goals. If they hired only straight white men, as Elmo himself tries to do despite pesky laws to the contrary, all would be well. Imagine an entire workforce made in the orange-tinted pasty whiteness of a genius like Trump himself! Boeing’s products would be – if I may coin a term – “perfect”, just like Trump’s phone calls and financial disclosures.
I don’t know if it’s pressure from the collapse of Xitter or if it’s the drugs, but Elmo isn’t even pretending to be sane any more.
Well, if hating Elon Musk finally made you realize that EVs are severely challenged in cold weather, great. Maybe now you won’t vote for people trying to mandate them.
Teslas are among the best cars for holding their range in the cold, btw. At zero, a Tesla loses about 24% of its range. A Volkswagen ID4 loses 46%! The Mustang Mach E loses 34%. So what you are saying is that EVs in general suck in winter. Couldn’t agree more.
In Twitter news, it reached an all-time record number of users a couple of days ago.
Mr. Beast is now uploading directly to Twitter. His first video, posted less than a day ago, already has 70m views. He will be announcing the revenue stats next week.
And I’m starting to see more advertising from major advertisers again. Oh, and the control freaks at Davos are wringing their hands over ‘what to do about X.’ That makes my day.
Anyone who doesn’t want to read the whole page, can find a handy-dandy chart by doing a Ctrl+F on the word “verified” and looking for the fourth iteration (out of eight).
(SPOILER: Tesla’s four vehicles are mostly in the middle of the pack of twelve.)
