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== The Medical Patient/Abuse Victim == | == The Medical Patient/Abuse Victim == | ||
The medical patient has some kind of condition that they would prefer that ad networks not be aware of | The medical patient has some kind of condition that they would prefer that ad networks not be aware of: possibly one that puts them at risk for raised medical, life, or auto insurance premiums, or carries other social stigma. Such a user may decide to use the mode after receiving mysterious targeted ads for their condition while visiting unrelated sites. | ||
They are possibly a member of a number of online support groups that they | They are possibly a member of a number of online support groups that they log in to and post to under a pseudonym (such as alcoholics anonymous, narcanon, etc) using the mode. | ||
They | They are likely an occasional user, and would remain logged in to social media services, their email account, and other websites continuously during normal browsing, but would prefer a clean slate for web usage relating to their condition. | ||
They may or may not be concerned about records of anonymous web activity on their own computer. They likely use the mode from home. | They may or may not be concerned about records of anonymous web activity on their own computer. They likely use the mode from home, but may opt to use a proxy. | ||
== The Pseudonymous Blogger == | == The Pseudonymous Blogger == | ||
The pseudonymous blogger maintains a politically or technically controversial blog that may expose them to subpoena risk to uncover their identity. There have been several cases of Apple in particular demanding the identity of bloggers | The pseudonymous blogger maintains a politically or technically controversial blog that may expose them to subpoena risk to uncover their identity. There have been several cases of Apple in particular demanding the identity of bloggers posting about unreleased or otherwise secret product releases or features. Bloggers in China and other countries also face risk of attempts to identify them. | ||
This user | This user likely uses public wifi or a proxy to access the Internet, as opposed to their normal Internet connection. | ||
If operating in the United States, this user is likely not concerned about logs on their local disk. | If operating in the United States, this user is likely not concerned about logs on their local disk. | ||
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== The Paranoid == | == The Paranoid == | ||
The paranoid wants to avoid most of their activity being recorded by ad networks and services. They are suspicious of Facebook, social media sites, and tend not to be logged in to any services continuously. They are the types that disable javascript | The paranoid wants to avoid most of their activity being recorded by ad networks and services. They are suspicious of Facebook, social media sites, and tend not to be logged in to any services continuously. They are the types that currently disable javascript and/or run NoScript, BetterPrivacy, RequestPolicy, Adblock Plus, CookieCuller, and other addons to improve their privacy online. | ||
They likely use the mode continuously from home. | They likely use the mode continuously from home. | ||
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They likely do not care about their activity being recorded to their computer's disk. They most likely use the mode from home, but may use public wifi or a proxy. | They likely do not care about their activity being recorded to their computer's disk. They most likely use the mode from home, but may use public wifi or a proxy. | ||
== The Privacy Power User == | |||
The power user would prefer to maintain multiple independent identities logged in to various social media services. They would prefer to be able to configure their browser to quickly switch between these identities, which may represent different personae, or may simply represent individual services or websites that they do not want to be logged in to concurrently. | |||
They likely author independent blogs, have multiple email accounts, post on multiple mailinglists/web forums, contribute to a number of open source projects, and/or operate multiple twitter feeds, all under different pseudonyms. | |||
They likely use a proxy of some sort. They are not concerned about their activity being stored on their computer: in fact they would prefer it, to ease their ability to remain logged in to services and retain history and bookmarks without suffering the privacy consequences. | |||
=User Agent Considerations= | =User Agent Considerations= | ||