Do you try to discipline your interactions with AI?

[iwatchus]

There's info about you that follows you around in normal browsing, in any browser. It's what lets you stay logged in, remember where you are, etc.

Private browsing is supposed to block that, at the cost of making many things inconvenient (and some pages not working at all).
But Google's basic business model is about understanding people on line, to be able to serve better ads. So they said they had private browsing, but didn't. They got sued sometime a little while ago, because there private browsing doesn't do what everyone else's does and what people expect private growing to do.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Nothing keeps your IP address private unless you are using a VPN.

And even then, if you sign into something (or otherwise identify yourself), a VPN is useless. You sneak in, all stealthy, then shout out, "Hi everybody!" Kinda defeats the purpose don't ya think?

 

[AlexBailey]

Using Gmail?

Have you noticed “Firefly” at work?

Among other features, it actively tracks what you’re writing, changing font size to accentuate key phrases of your messages.

Firefly was developed as a note taking app for meetings and messages. It’s also used to provide transcripts of your voicemails.

So yeah. Lots of data is being quietly gathered.