Does submerging a wet phone in rice revive it? Are cellular towers a health hazard? Or do batteries last longer when you put them in the freezer? In the tech world, there’s no space for fiction, only facts exist. However, as everything spreads like wildfire on the internet, some tech myths have become deep-rooted beliefs.
As technology evolves, it spawns a new set of myths that over time, become common among people. Not because there’s any truth to them, but because most people generally accept whatever they find on the internet, without any research.
However, now is the time to set the record straight, as we’re going to debunk some famous myths that most people see as the ultimate truth.
Without further ado, let’s get started.
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Myth 1: Incognito Mode is Secure and Private
For most people, incognito mode is no less than a blessing. Helping us to maintain a distance from spies, incognito mode puts a veil on our browser’s history. Well, that’s what most of us think, right?
However, that’s not the case at all. Yes, this mode removes cookies and tracking data as soon as we close the browser, our ISP or websites still know our presence. It doesn’t halt them from tracking our movement in the incognito mode.
For total invisibility, what you can do is connect to a VPN before opening your browser. As a VPN alters your IP address, it puts a veil on your online identity, keeping your tracking activity and history safe from your ISP and website.
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Myth 2: Strong Password Prevents Hacking
A password with upper- and lower-case alphabets, some numeric and special characters, is always recommended. Most of us may think that it is safest way to secure our accounts, be it on social media platforms or professional websites.
However, it’s rarely the case, as a strong password is only one layer of protection against the hackers. A strong password is juts your first line of defense but there are so many other things that you can do to protect your account. A sturdy password may buy you some time, but hackers assisted by intelligent tools may crack your password eventually. In short, a complex password helps, but you cannot be solely dependent on it.
Myth 3: Online Information is Free of Cost
Although it seems that “How to” guides or informative articles we read on the internet are free. Yes, we don’t have to pay money to access them, but in reality, our data pays for it.
For companies, data is more valuable than gold or oil. A person wandering on the internet is their potential customer. A company pays high traffic sites a lot of money for data scrapping; eventually these sites share our data with companies.
For example, you’re a traveler and reach out to a site to explore your next destination. You enter some personal details and as soon as you start exploring, ads are bombarded with things you may be interested in. So, yes, it may seem that you don’t have to spend a dime to access information on the internet. However, data privacy is the currency you are paying with.
Myth 4: Better Megapixels Means Better Pictures
Phones with high megapixels guarantee good and clear pictures, right? If that were the case, the iPhone would never get famous for its camera quality. iPhone 15 Pro Max, the top-of-the-line variant has a 48MP main camera. However, it offers much better results than most of the higher megapixel camera phones produced by other companies.
Megapixels just offer high-resolution photos, but the camera lens and sensors define the image quality. A camera with a defected lens may provide blurry pictures. However, a defective lens with great megapixels may provide blurry pictures in high resolution. So, camera megapixels matter a lot, but alone, they don’t define the camera’s quality.
Myth 5: Charging Phones Overnight is Harmful
In the olden days, everyone would talk about overcharging. We believed that mobile batteries overloaded whenever we charged them overnight. Most smartphones have lithium-ion batteries. Once they hit 100%, these lithium-ion batteries stop charging and do not overcharge. Also, batteries do not damage when left to change overnight.
What may damage these batteries is exposure to extreme temperature changes. A phone dissipates heat while charging. If you put the mobile under your pillow, the dissipating heat may not find a way out, and damage the battery or the mobile.
Bottom Line
While there is no doubt that technology is keeping us well informed, however with so much information bombardment, filtering the right news is very important. In this article, we’ve debunked 5 myths that most of us were unaware of. However, there’s still a long list to go that we will cover in upcoming articles. Tell us what we have missed in the comment section.