Google was already in the middle of a class-action lawsuit regarding the incognito mode, where they were accused of tracking user activity. And, they agreed to settle the lawsuit.
To conclude that and move on, they will have to make the necessary changes to prevent another lawsuit against them.
No shit.
It’s never been a secret what incognito mode does. Websites have always still been able to do whatever they want with your traffic, because the browser doesn’t control that in any way.
Yeah. But you don’t get upvotes so easily by not shouting “Google bad!”.
While this might be obvious to you or I, it’s obviously not obvious to some people who think it gives them some semblance of privacy.
The only “private mode” of browsing is anything that’s not Chrome or Edge.
Of course, a better course of action could have been “actually” improving the incognito mode instead of just updating the notice.
An even better course of action is for people to switch to a browser that care about users’ privacy and block trackers by default.
Google makes billions from targeted advertising every year, don’t expect it to improve privacy unless it’s forced to by regulation or competition.
Yeah if you use a google product and expect privacy, you dont know how google makes money.
Google makes billions from targeted advertising every year, don’t expect it to improve privacy unless it’s forced to by regulation or competition.
Yeah, I have been wondering my whole life that there are so many people believing in ‘privacy tools’ by companies like Google. This is one of the things that mystifies me most.
Of course you’re correct but the quote you’re using is in regards to Google.
Before they switched to the two column layout I swear the message used to be about the same as what they updated it to. But it’s been a long time since I used Chrome.
