I was talking about this statement:

Private tabs do nothing for the backend, your ISP, browser, search engine, and any sites you visit, can still see everything you do. All private tabs do is they don’t save history or cookies on your frontend.

Obviously if you use a VPN your ISP can’t see it.

If you use a private browser they’re not watching you, but again, your browser can easily log all that information if they are inclined to.

I didn’t say anything about fingerprinting and neither did you. Cookies are a large part of tracking, I never said it was the only way they’re tracking. But if I go on one site and they fingerprint me, and then I go on another site and they fingerprint me, the first site doesn’t automatically know I was on the second site because of the same fingerprint. They would know because of the cookies.

That’s fucked up.

I understand a mandolin to be a musical instrument. I have no idea wtf this comment is talking about.

Browsers like Tor and Mullvad have the right idea. They do all the most important privacy tweaks out of the box and encourage you not to modify it, so that way everyone using the browser has the same fingerprint which makes it much more difficult to track any one user.

Your ISP and browser can see everything you do, but your search engine can only see what you’re doing when you’re actively on the site, and through cookies. Same with those other sites. Using incognito absolutely helps with that.

Depends on why you’re using it.