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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Silently changing a behavior, especially one that is in other web browsers, is a bit user-hostile and I understand the frustration.

    On the other hand, privacy-wise this change is good, since it was likely storing the incognito tabs (browser state) in the app storage and was likely retrievable by forensics tools (ie: Cellebrite).

    I’d rather have the browser state of incognito tabs stored in RAM at all time.

    I feel like those affected are using incognito tabs as a way to separate their browsing history. Maybe a more convenient option would be the ability to run multiple browser sessions on mobile instead of falling back on the incognito mode as a workaround.











  • Do you see the content of these communities when logged out (ex: incognito mode on your browser) or through another instance / the home instance of that community?

    One possibility is that the instance you’re on “deleted” the remote community, and it won’t sync anymore until restored.

    We had to do this with a couple of unmoderated communities filled with spam, with an unresponsive instance admin. It was that or defederate completely from that instance, which I’d rather not do.