Could someone elaborate as to why opening a new window for each page is a privacy increase?
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On this wiki page https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/anonymity
There's a link called "First steps towards online privacy" which takes you to an article which arguments that opening a new window for every page you visit is a privacy increase, without elaborating on why.
If I read the page correctly it's about opening a new "private" window. Which means (I think) that page doesn't give access to the history, cookies, etc from previous privacy pages.
If I might add, Tor Browser actually separates cookies by domain and one cannot access another pages' cookies. Which is a great help in terms of privacy.
They recommend opening and closing a new private window frequently, better still each time. That way the pages you visit cannot cross-link. They have no idea where you came from, thus they cannot see a pattern or establish a record of habituary behaviour to make a fingerprint.
That was I thought. So does that mean closing the entire program (browser) and reopen it and then type in (or paste in) the link to where you were going? Or is it sufficient to right click a link and select "open in a new window"?
I would suspect that the former is needed for it to have any effect.
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