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What about private browsing or running a Firefox portable exe?
this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2023
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Private browsing is a fig leaf at best.
Portable Firefox is hit or miss, depending upon the work environment. It'll definitely show up in file system monitoring, might show up in the logs of the border proxy as an unexpected user agent. The initial download will definitely show up. Removable media might or might not, depending on how group policy is set up.
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If allowed, doesn't DoH/DoT mitigate this issue?
Not necessarily, as the browser is still logging the history.
Well that's what private mode is for, to dump the local data after closing the browser session
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Unlimited mobile data with tethering and no blocking of piracy websites ftw
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