I recently learned that you can make many apps such as browsers portable on a USB drive and I was wondering, aside from being able to take it on the go, what other advantages does portable apps have? I know it won’t take up much storage. Is there any privacy benefits?
Privacy benefits would vary with different apps - you’d need to really dig into that.
Any purported benefits might stop mum from checking your browsing history but wouldn’t stop a determined attacker, although they would likely need to have things in place to monitor you before you showed up with your USB drive.
I can’t really think of what the practical benefits actually might be?
It might feel private, and it might even feel convenient in some cases, but as a general practice it seems like a whole lot of horsing around for very little benefit.