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Not that you guys need the reminder, but your work sees all your browser history and you may not even be able to delete it if you wanted to (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by t0fr@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (11 children)

What about private browsing or running a Firefox portable exe?

[–] perviouslyiner@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Tor browser bundle" is the version of Firefox that doesn't reveal browsing data to the local network.

[–] drwho@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

The use of Tor does show up on the network. The protocol is known and understood, and has been in the detection sets of pretty much every layer 7 filtering product for the last ten or eleven years. What, exactly, is being accessed is largely concealed (but traffic patterns give away a reasonably broad picture of what's happening).

[–] drwho@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] t0fr@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean it's not blocked, but if you're connected to their network, they can still see your traffic if they wanted to.

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[–] roofuskit@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I won't even connect to a wireless network at work with my phone without VPNing to my home network to browse. People use their work computers to browse for personal reasons? They are all.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Not my work.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Well, since I am IT, I am not about go to snitch on myself.

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