It is what it is
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Incognito/Private Browsing came about when people were sharing computers more often. It doesn’t save history and cookies and whatnot on your device. It’s to prevent the next user from getting in to your bank account.
Google and whoever else will still know your IP and can use that to cross-reference whatever other data they have on you.
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"He's the one who knocks!"
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firefox containers are amazing for this
Firefox -p "Spanky"
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I don’t believe for a second that they are actually going to delete any data they stole from users.
Of course they will! First you make a copy, then you delete the copy. Contractual terms satisfied.
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firefox containers are amazing for this
Except it only keeps cookies separated, history is shared over all containers.
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But they still won’t they’ll just make a more hidden copy
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Am I the only one who only used incognito by accident when intending to select "open in new tab" from the context menu?
I use it to access the same site with different logins at the same time, or to let someone else log in to a service temporarily using my device
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I don't think anyone thought that "incognito mode" his anything from anyone except the other users of that particular computer
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Um was this surprising to anyone? I think we all assumed that this was the case no???
I think the techno illiterate boomers of the fediverse are probably flabbergasted
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You’ve gone Incognito. Others who use this device won’t see your activity, so you can browse more privately. This won't change how data is collected by websites you visit and the services they use, including Google. Downloads, bookmarks and reading list items will be saved.
- Google Chrome
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If anyone thought that Incognito somehow protected their data from websites or services, then that's their fault for jumping to that conclusion in the face of everything saying that's not the case.
Also...
In lawsuits settlement
In meme sentence, words disappear.
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I don't think anyone thought that "incognito mode" his anything from anyone except the other users of that particular computer
Oh man, I envy your opinion of other people. Hold onto that as long as you can.
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If anyone thought that Incognito somehow protected their data from websites or services, then that's their fault for jumping to that conclusion in the face of everything saying that's not the case.
Also...
In lawsuits settlement
In meme sentence, words disappear.
That was actually their lawyer's argument, that "incognito mode" being private was just something people assumed and ran with, not their fault.
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That was actually their lawyer's argument, that "incognito mode" being private was just something people assumed and ran with, not their fault.
Well yeah, that's the only possible argument that the lawyer could even have.
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Go to the website directly! Porn hub is not hard to spell! I spell it all the time even using no fingers at all!
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Incognito was never about hiding your data from Google, it was always about preventing random websites from getting your data
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hey before they do that, can i look through their files on me? theres some porn i havent been able to refind anywhere
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Doesn't it specifically say on a new incognito tab that this doesn't protect against sites or service providers from gathering information....and only stops you from storing local information (history, cookies, etc)? Do people actually think that incognito is adding privacy protection?
Maybe I read it wrong but (to me) the meme makes it sound like Google's taking the local data (that's supposed to be forgotten, once you close the browser window) and sending it over to Google for them to, I dunno, run analysis on.
If they're saying that Google sites (like YouTube, Google search, etc.) were collecting data when I visit them (as, unfortunately, sites do), then I'd say, "Well, duh;" but this makes it seem like they were exporting your local data off to their cloud which, like, they could obviously, technically do but wouldn't very much be in the spirit of how Incognito mode was portrayed.
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Incognito was never about privacy. It's about hiding your seach history from your parents or partner or whatever
