To settle a years-long lawsuit, Google has agreed to delete “billions of data records” collected from users of “Incognito mode,” illuminating the pitfalls of relying on Chrome to protect your privacy.
Yeah I’ve always assumed incognito mode is just for when you don’t want to have it save to your browser history or if you want to be able to log into a second account on a website.
To be fair, I don’t think the average user would think that Google, the creator of that Incognito Mode, would keep the data.
Incognito Mode warns specifically that websites the user navigates to may still keep records, but I don’t think it says anything about the creator of the browser keeping records (unless, of course, you visit their website).
Nah it’s basically the button cops press when they want to kill someone that turns off their body cam except it’s for when you don’t want the CIA to see you crank it to clown fart porn
Am I the only one who knew Incognito mode simply didn’t keep history or cookies on the local machine?
I always assumed nothing changed on Google’s end.
Yeah I’ve always assumed incognito mode is just for when you don’t want to have it save to your browser history or if you want to be able to log into a second account on a website.
To be fair, I don’t think the average user would think that Google, the creator of that Incognito Mode, would keep the data.
Incognito Mode warns specifically that websites the user navigates to may still keep records, but I don’t think it says anything about the creator of the browser keeping records (unless, of course, you visit their website).
I wonder if they’d be in the same trouble if they’d kept it simple by saying:
“This mode simply doesn’t keep history or cookies on the local computer.”
That would not suggest that anything is different anywhere else.
You’re not the only one. But it might as well be a magic box for many people.
Nah it’s basically the button cops press when they want to kill someone that turns off their body cam except it’s for when you don’t want the CIA to see you crank it to clown fart porn