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

Never do anything on work machines/networks you don't want to have to explain to hr/legal.

Everybody has a cell phone nowadays. There's no excuse not to use your cell phone for private stuff. In fact don't use the company Wi-Fi. You must use the company Wi-Fi then you must use a VPN

But no excuse anymore not to use your phone, you don't need to use the word computer to browse, send emails, flirt, whatever

They see and scan all traffic, even what doesn't go through the browser.

No one should use work laptops other than for work

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Of course they can, they literally own the machine. You don't own it, so don't treat it like it's your own private job hunting platform or porn viewer.

Anyone that uses work equipment for personal stuff deserves to be found out

Your work can also read your private Slack messages. You have been warned.

I used TOR at work once, to download some RPMs. Corp IT had a fucking meltdown

I work in cybersec - I’m not going to speak for all businesses or individuals but I will give you my perspective.

Sometimes we need to see browser history to help with timeline correlation, it’s mainly to see “how did this file get here, was it downloaded etc.

Sometimes the investigators need to check out the things they need to check out, BUT

BUT

It needs to be done precisely and sparingly where needed only. This means instead of going through the entire history file, or doing unrelated correlation work (spying on you without cause) you are going to only grab specific timeframes from things you suspect explicitly to prevent any overreach. It’s a tricky balance to hold but also why it’s so important for people in tech to be privacy advocates as well.

There’s a difference between searching for answers to a problem that arose and looking for/predicting problems (thought crime detected!)

Until you get asked by HR why you're breaking their policies by clearing history and why you're doing it. If it's a work device that's not yours, don't expect privacy. It's their property.

your work sees all your browser history

Possibly, if they've bothered to configure their machines that way. And only on the browsers they've configured that way and only on their machines.

Also, please don't assume that your work operates the same way as everyone else's work.

Oh no, my employer might find out I'm looking for other jobs after being overloaded for a year and a half and constantly having my concerns/feedback/process improvement initiatives brushed aside.

I’m an infrastructure analyst and at my workplace I implement such rules for specific reasons: 1) we need to be able to have evidence should an employee act maliciously with a company device. We do also monitor all queries but it’s passive. We can drill into your browsing history in great detail but won’t unless we have to (speaking personally here as I follow the code). 2) people will do dumb shit. And will lie to get support. Now, having been on the other end of a support ticket, I get it. Unless you lie a little, you may not get support promptly. Therefore, it’s part of my job to check what’s the lie and what’s the actual issue, which includes being able to see the download history. I would not be surprised if malware is accidentally downloaded and then it autonomously removes itself from the download history as It has happened before. Strictly speaking, this is done for both your safety as well as that of the company. And generally speaking, you should NEVER use your work laptop/phone/iPad for personal use because of all of the above.

So only watch mainstream porn on work computers, got it.

I've always assumed work will be looking at the browser history. Anyone who assumes they won't is an idiot.

Forget chrome management. Any IT shop worth their salt is protecting their egress with a proxy, explicitly or transparently set.

Don't browse the net on your employer's network or devices. Use your phone. Get on 4G/5G.

I mean, MS can literally track you between Windows installs, as long as you're on the same hardware. No surprises here.

Anyone know exactly what they could see if you're on a personal device but work-wifi?

My work has a 100% mandatory vpn and mitm proxy for ssl scanning. I just use parsec to view my laptop from my desktop and browse what I want on my actual personal computer

Man am I the only one who gets to use Ubuntu for work?

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Joke's on you, I'm the network admin in the office.

if you don't have your personal browsing using a private profile of a secondary browser which you know you can delete, you are doing it wrong.

Not my work.

What are you talking about? They definitely dont see what I browse in a whonix Qube..

Wow, didn't know that is possible. Is it same behavior with other browsers?

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

Only tangentially relevant, human beings get along better with their agenda (that is, are more productive) when they're freely allowed to check email and their lemmy feeds, shop on Amazon and whatever other social media stuff they do. In fact, studies have shown an improvement when they drag overly-focused clerks to their mandated coffee breaks (actual coffee optional).

So if you're getting into trouble for chatting with your kids, or answering emails or resupplying your household with dog food, that might be an indicator your work environment is toxic and you might want to keep looking out for better offers.

Also when game dev teams are crunched, their productivity drops below 50%. When they're crunched for more than two weeks, it drops below 10%. So don't crunch your devs.

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.

What about private browsing or running a Firefox portable exe?

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Unlimited mobile data with tethering and no blocking of piracy websites ftw

If allowed, doesn't DoH/DoT mitigate this issue?

For US government employees USAJobs is probably one of the most accessed websites.

Also in Google searches, if you click the vertical ... next to the URL on results, click the down arrow in the pop-up, and click Cached you can likely access a version of the website your white/blacklist service doesn't block. If there are SFW sites you need access to. Generally all scripts are disabled, though.

you don't know shit about my work fuck you!