Okay Chrome lovers, talk yourself out of this one…
I switched away from chrome a while ago, but this is just stupid. Incognito has always said that it can’t stop sties from tracking you. It’s always been about stopping stuff from being stored locally. Here’s the message:
If you read that and thought it did more than it said, that’s on you.
I think what people are complaining about is that Google itself is tracking you. Not just with cookies, but with the chrome browser. Everything you do goes back to Google, regardless of their silly Google analytics, JavaScript tag that people block.
Hey out of interest, did my comment just show up for you?
Not just with cookies, but with the chrome browser
Wow really? Has that actually been documented? Because yeah, that definitely changes things in my mind.
Well you see, it’s used by virtually everything. So get used to it. is all I imagine people saying, not my opinion.
I can bitch about chrome all day long… but none of that bitching will be about incognito mode as that was and continues to be an useful feature that did exactly what I expected it to do. Everything it said it did, it did.
Just because people made up their own imaginary ideas about what they think it does isn’t really Google’s fault. If people think snorkels allow them to scuba dive and then drown, I’m not about to blame the snorkel maker that wrote ‘diving googles and snorkel’ on the packaging.
I find this very silly. Incognito always had disclaimers about how it doesn’t protect you from tracking. Do people not know Google is just a website that does taking (or did anyway) like any other? And how tf did Google lose that lawsuit when eulas have “this software isn’t fit for any purpose” clauses and incognito was never advertised for privacy to begin with and straight up tells you it doesnt give you privacy when you open it.
If I had to guess, is because the mode’s very name strongly tells you so?
Definition– adjective (of a person) having one’s true identity concealed. “in order to observe you have to be incognito”
adverb in a way that conceals one’s true identity. “he is now operating incognito”
noun an assumed or false identity. “she is locked in her incognito”
not protecting users from tracking is very different than wantonly tracking users yourself when they literally hit the privacy button
I would think such a thing would be a bigger liability. Because even if Google stops tracking you other trackers wouldn’t. If people didn’t read and understand “this does not protect against trackers” they definitely aren’t going to do that with “this will stop Google’s trackers but not 3rd party ones”.
“If you’re concerned, for whatever reason, you do not wish to be tracked by federal and state authorities, my strong recommendation is to use [Google Chrome’s] incognito mode.”
- Eric Schmidt, 2014
Firefox’s private browsing description is pretty solid if anybody managed to read it
Good to see Google finally fixing issues
