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Google Discloses That Incognito Mode in Chrome Isn't Entirely 'Private' (news.itsfoss.com)

submitted 2 years ago by tardigrada@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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.

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[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 69 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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.

[–] sirdorius@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Honestly, this article is pretty bad at explaining the problem here. It's clear that other websites will try to track you, but the important part of this incognito drama is this:

The plaintiffs also accused Google of taking Chrome users' private browsing activity and then associating it with their already-existing user profiles.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/google-agrees-to-settle-in-chrome-incognito-mode-class-action-lawsuit/

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Of course they did. It doesn't take any kind of abuse of the browser to do that. It's all on the website side and everyone does that.

Ban most data gathering websites do. But this has literally zero to do with the browser.

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