Joe,

Most browsers now have a mode that prevents cookie tracking and other such
methods of correlating you to the places you browse.  I don't know who
first called it "incognito" but it's a good name for it.

http://browsers.about.com/od/faq/tp/Incognito-Browsing.htm

(I don't know how accurate that page is but it appears to cover the
settings for many popular browsers.)

Alan

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:43 PM, <joe@actionline.com> wrote:

>
> Thanks for all the responses.
>
> > Google has started to tailor what you get based on what they know about
> > you, which is far more than you might expect. To me this is a problem.
> > It is akin to telling me what I want to hear, not what I need to know or
> > the truth, if there really is something called the truth.
>
> Well, of course there is one trustworthy source of truth ;) but it doesn't
> specialize in today's headlines (or then again perhaps it does ;)
>
> In any case, I took another look at news.google and perhaps it does about
> as objective a job of presenting today's headline stories as any.  I
> wasn't aware that google "tailors" news to our individual preferences.
> That's very interesting.
>
> How does one specify an "incognito" mode, as Alan mentioned?  I'd really
> like to be able to compare that to whatever is "tailored" for me.
>
> I did notice (for the first time today), that they offer four different
> format options:
> Modern, headlines, compact, and classic.
>
> I wish one could check a box beside articles that have been read so only
> the titles would appear and nothing else.  That would make the overall
> list of articles even more concise, but one could still go back to a
> previously read article if desired.
>
>
>
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