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`exec <shell>` would avoid nested shells and inherit the environment. Which might be preferable if you find your terminal emulator complaining about processes still running on close.


Why not say,

"Now other people who use this device won't see your activity."

What does the bit before the 'and' mean?


I read it as "Now you can browse privately, and [therefore] other people who use this device won't see your activity."


Except that if Google is still tracking you, you're not browsing privately.


Right, unless you interpret the second half of the sentence as clarifying or defining the first. Which I do. If may not be your preferred definition of "private", but it is a definition of private.

To paraphrase it another way, it says "what you do on your browser is hidden, specifically it is hidden from other people who would try to find out using this device"

Further, given the overall ambiguity of English, and given the goal is something casual, not legalese, the way it is phrased is reasonable.

Actually, that raises an interesting point, how is this phrase rendered by chrome for other languages, and do any of them phrase it in a less ambiguous way?


Are you aware of the S&P 500 ESG index?


I think it has mostly been established that these are bogus and the actual companies don't really do much of anything social / environmental.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/26/chamath-palihapitiya-esg-inv...

Anyway, these are ethical concepts and can vary widely between person to person. Some might not want to invest in energy companies at all where as others might not have anything against companies selling oil / cars with internal combustion engines but take objection to a company's CEO being against BLM for example.


There are various "ethical" indexes, but pretty much none of them exclude google or facebook (which would be at the top of my cut-list). I want to do my own individual research on each company, and come to my own conclusions.


I can identify fully with your investing needs and am looking for exactly the same as you - some sort of custom etfs that fully comply with my ethics and morale. Just wanted to mention that :)


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