Incognito was never about privacy. It’s about hiding your seach history from your parents or partner or whatever
It is what it is
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SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 2 months ago
pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
For buying gifts, for example.
Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Or masturbating to pornography
Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 month ago
That’s adorable.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
and i’m pretty sure the browsers have been quite explicit about this for a long time now, but of course no one bothers to read “This won’t change how data is collected by websites you visit and the services they use, including Google.”
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t believe for a second that they are actually going to delete any data they stole from users.
Gork@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Oops offshore backup mysteriously occurred.
Godnroc@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Of course they will! First you make a copy, then you delete the copy. Contractual terms satisfied.
monogram@feddit.nl 2 months ago
The raw data might be purged but no one talks about the ML modal that google trained with that data.
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
UPDATE disgustingly_detailed_data SET deleted = true WHERE inkognito = true;
Landless2029@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Incognito was literally only good for opening a second session without you logged in. It did zero for privacy. Even their disclaimer said so.
DerArzt@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Incognito, you mean porn mode?
Landless2029@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Its a moor point once you sign into your Facebook account to “share with friends”
spiffpitt@lemmy.world 2 months ago
firefox containers are amazing for this
Landless2029@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Firefox -p “Spanky”
zombaya01@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Except it only keeps cookies separated, history is shared over all containers.
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
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.
jim3692@discuss.online 1 month ago
I use private, because I am a tab hoarder
tatterdemalion@programming.dev 1 month ago
You guys are still using Chrome?
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Incognito mode was always just to hide your local browser history. Think Google would NOT track you?
Do you have Google maps? They know where you are at all times.
camelbeard@lemmy.world 1 month ago
User visits Google (logged in)
User visits Google, without cookies, but from the same IP, same user agent, same resolution, same OS, same enabled plugins, same browser version number, same fingerprint (based on al the previous information).
Google, who could this possibly be???
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You mean…they know I typed “boobs” into the search bar that one time!? NOOOO!!
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Do you have a phone? They know where your toilet is
veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The know when I’m in a theatre and automatically mute my phone. Admittedly convenient, but also super creepy
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Do you have
Google maps?ANY UNMODIFIED GOOGLE CODE OR ANDROID IN THE HISTORY OF FOREVER?Then they know where you are at all times. I bet the Pixel users get gold stars.
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh no! Anyway
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Naming it incognito was a mistake. It was always clear to me all incognito is, is a non persistent container to keep your browsing data separate from your regular browsing data. All its hiding is your porn browsing habits from your mom. But of course, the name implies much more.
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Good for testing instead of “clearing cache and cookies”
Leviathan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There were memes about this what feels like at least 10 years ago. Makes perfect sense when you think about it.
IzzyJ@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not a mistake, intentionally deceptive
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Some ones been caught with his pants down 😏
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
from your mom
…did your parents not have friends set up packet sniffers?
ballgoat@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
“Hey, so now that Chrome has been released, we’re gonna fly up to visit your son and install a packet sniffer on his network!”
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 2 months ago
hey before they do that, can i look through their files on me? theres some porn i havent been able to refind anywhere
dumbass@quokk.au 1 month ago
Wouldn't that be amazing! I have single frames of good videos stuck in my head that I can never find again.
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There is a r/tipofmypenis for that
Maybe someone knows a Lemmy alternative
Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
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
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Ah, good find. I just assumed it would have been explicit about it from the start
blujan@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Man, even then it was clear what it was doing, are they supposed to list every single website you visit that might track you?
Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Um was this surprising to anyone? I think we all assumed that this was the case no???
cRazi_man@europe.pub 2 months ago
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?
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 months ago
That was actually a result of this issue, where Google placed misleading statements in incognito and then proceeded to actively go around them.
themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It has somewhat of a privacy protection because it’s incapable of keeping cookies. The bar is in hell, but it passed it.
tomenzgg@midwest.social 2 months ago
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.
KeenFlame@feddit.nu 2 months ago
I think the techno illiterate boomers of the fediverse are probably flabbergasted
stoy@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Incognito was never about hiding your data from Google, it was always about preventing random websites from getting your data
m0stlyharmless@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
It doesn’t even do that. All it does is prevent persistent data from being stored from the browsing session (so, no disk cache or browsing history).
Dave@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
Except the part where all incognito tabs/windows share the same session.
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
turtlesareneat@discuss.online 2 months ago
That was actually their lawyer’s argument, that “incognito mode” being private was just something people assumed and ran with, not their fault.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I mean, they called it “Incognito”.
having one’s true identity concealed
If it doesn’t conceal your identity, then that’s pretty clearly misleading. They’re not selling to experts, the users of this are laypeople. It’s like if you sold a “waterproof phone” and the packaging all made it look like it could withstand water, but then when it got wet it broke and you were like “people just assumed it was waterproof, it’s not our fault”.
Sure experts could tell, and enthusiasts would read the expert opinions on it, but that’s not something you should expect of laypeople considering how it is presented.gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well yeah, that’s the only possible argument that the lawyer could even have.
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I haven’t used Chrome in years. Brave and firefox, that’s my crowd.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Brave is also Chromium.
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Correct. But it is not the same.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Firefox is also a web browser.
Oh sorry, I thought we were making meaningless comparisons.
vga@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Next headline: Google promises to delete the Firefox private window data they were holding
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Firefox’s main funding was from Google being their default search engine. Which of course means anything searched in Google is recorded to the external IP address logs. So unless you are going directly to the website or changed the search engine in Firefox, yes Google was recording said information (or at least compiling the numbers for data analytics) to use for advertising purposes.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The Google Incognito tab in any browser clarifies that while it prevents your browsing history from being saved on your device, it does not make your browsing completely private.
Websites you visit, your employer (if on a work network), and your internet service provider (ISP) can still track your online activity.
Hell it even has a link that leads directly to the privacy policy
Nangijala@feddit.dk 1 month ago
Wait… people actually think that incognito means that they don’t record your searches??
I thought everybody knew that all incognito does is preventing your searches from showing up in your search history.
Did anyone actually think that these big tech companies would willingly give you an option to keep your searches private from them?
Hello???
Always assume that everything you do online is being recorded and seen by someone. Unless you’re a master computer wiz or whatever the fuck they call it these days, ALWAYS ASSUME YOUR ACTIVITY ONLINE IS PUBLIC.
Bieren@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s Google. If you are shocked by this, you deserve to be tracked.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 month ago
People mistaking incognito mode for a VPN or Tor.
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 1 month ago
Glad I don’t use Chrome lol
sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If you care about your privacy, don’t use products from a company whose entire business model is built on invading your privacy.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Things do the opposite of what their name says they do. We’ve been in 1984/F451 bizarro world for a while, now.
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Go to the website directly! Porn hub is not hard to spell! I spell it all the time even using no fingers at all!
vga@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
They are fully capable of extracting profile data from you even if you’re in incognito/private mode. And it doesn’t matter what browser you are using.
Zenith@lemm.ee 2 months ago
But they still won’t they’ll just make a more hidden copy
NotAGamer@lemmy.org 2 months ago
Am I the only one who only used incognito by accident when intending to select “open in new tab” from the context menu?
lowered_lifted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
People really need to learn about VPNs and advertising ID numbers and also how your ISP is selling your activity
Cattail@lemmy.world 1 month ago
yeah im part of that class action and i get so many text asking about it
Karl@programming.dev 1 month ago
So this is why the weird shite I look up in incognito comes up when I search something without incognito mode.
JaffnaCakes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
“He’s the one who knocks!”
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 months ago
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