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What are the advantages of portable apps?
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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.