Re:The 'Incognito Mode' lawsuit: a legal blow to Google's pr...
by unaindz on Monday October 30, 2023 @03:16PM
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I'm pretty sure those disclaimers were not there when the lawsuit started a few years back. People generally thought privacy mode had a lot more capabilities than it really had, at least most layman people I talked with about it. Now it seems that has changed, probably because of the disclaimers.
Re:The 'Incognito Mode' lawsuit: a legal blow to Google's pr...
by tssva on Monday October 30, 2023 @04:09PM
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I'm pretty sure you are wrong.
Re:The 'Incognito Mode' lawsuit: a legal blow to Google's pr...
by Scion9066 on Monday October 30, 2023 @06:45PM
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They've been there in some form for a very long time (see the ancient screenshot here):
https://www.chromium.org/user-experience/incognito/
> Your activity might still be visible to:
> * Websites you visit
> * Your employer or school
> * Your internet service provider
Which to me, at least, makes clear that Incognito Mode is not a catch-all privacy-preserving mode.
Additionally, the "Block third-party cookies" toggle implies that websites can/will use third-party cookies when the toggle isn't selected.
(I have mixed feelings on some of these anti-Google suits... considering how many rock-solid cases there are to bring against Google, chasing the ones that are founded on shaky premises feels like a waste of time at best and actively detrimental to the other cases at worst.)