The irony with this is if incognito was really untracable then the government would be pushing to make it less secure just like they’re already actively trying to force backdoors in Signal and other actually private services because “think of the children”.
I just want to chat with my friends in private, we’re not talking about anything bad just video games
But the children, Scrubbles, think of how they’ll be exploited
No I think there are other ways to solve that problem that don’t involve reading all of my messages. What about hashing word combinations, or AI that could give a warning indicator to companies without giving out all of the…
THE CHILDREN, THEY NEED OUR PROTECTION
o ok.
Well if you’re not doing anything wrong why try to hide it at all?
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Probably preaching to the choir in the largely tech savvy world that is the Threadiverse, but going to PSA nonetheless. If you’re concerned about privacy, don’t use anything associated with Google. Because IMO this is entirely unsurprising.
I want my $2
So what exactly are they alleged to have tracked from incognito users? The article mentions search history, which of course they’re going to continue to track because Google the search engine is not the same as Google Chrome the browser and the search engine has no business knowing or caring if you’re in incognito mode or not
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Google has agreed to settle a US lawsuit claiming it invaded the privacy of users by tracking them even when they were browsing in “private mode”.
US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers put a scheduled trial for the case on hold in California on Thursday, after lawyers said they had reached a preliminary settlement.
It said this had turned Google into an “unaccountable trove of information” on user preferences and “potentially embarrassing things”.
It added that Google could not “continue to engage in the covert and unauthorized data collection from virtually every American with a computer or phone”.
Earlier this month, the technology giant said it would pay $700m to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of US states that accused Google of quashing competition to its Play Store on Android devices.
The video game company sued Google in 2020 for unlawfully making its app store dominant over rivals.
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