Incognito isn’t, if you have custom instructions in your user preferences. Try it on the console and see if it still happens. It does for me, to be clear.
I was sceptical, so I tried to make Claude guess who wrote one of the test paragraphs, and it guessed correctly and was 75% confident. I asked it not to use internet, but i didn‘t verify that it didn’t use google.
There are levels to anonymity/privacy. If it’s important, you need to be on a VM that’s only ever connected to the ’net via a no-logging VPN, with accounts you’ve created distinctly for this purpose, paid for by crypto or cash-bought gift cards.
note: this setup is perfectly legal in most US and EU jurisdictions, as long as you’re not using it to hide or commit crimes or fraud (obDisclaimer: not legal advice, I may not even be a real person.)
The whole point of this post is that tracking technology has improved massively. Similarity is just another tool against you, the basics (network fingerprinting, account-ID graphs, etc.) are important too.
I was talking about claude incognito, which still gives claude your userPreferences but not your name or userMemory. So, in order to actually get an empty context if you have userPreferences set, you need to use the api.
Incognito isn’t, if you have custom instructions in your user preferences. Try it on the console and see if it still happens. It does for me, to be clear.
I was sceptical, so I tried to make Claude guess who wrote one of the test paragraphs, and it guessed correctly and was 75% confident. I asked it not to use internet, but i didn‘t verify that it didn’t use google.
I don’t have any custom instructions set, but thanks for the reminder!
I recommend using aistudio to test Gemini whilst controlling exactly what it sees and what tools it can use (it exactly mimics the API)
There are levels to anonymity/privacy. If it’s important, you need to be on a VM that’s only ever connected to the ’net via a no-logging VPN, with accounts you’ve created distinctly for this purpose, paid for by crypto or cash-bought gift cards.
note: this setup is perfectly legal in most US and EU jurisdictions, as long as you’re not using it to hide or commit crimes or fraud (obDisclaimer: not legal advice, I may not even be a real person.)
The whole point of this post is that tracking technology has improved massively. Similarity is just another tool against you, the basics (network fingerprinting, account-ID graphs, etc.) are important too.
I was talking about claude incognito, which still gives claude your userPreferences but not your name or userMemory. So, in order to actually get an empty context if you have userPreferences set, you need to use the api.