In other news, Google has been found to have retained all the data that it said it did not have, and then promised to delete.
this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2024
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Incognito has always been about not storing your browser history on your computer. It’s so that “hentai tentacle redneck porn” is not showing up as first result as soon you’re typing “h” when your family is around. It has never been about preventing tracking.
Shhhhhhhhh, people see the man in a hat and assume they're perfectly safe from any and all hacker men
Now this is a solid April Fools joke.
In this thread: People (pretending to be?) incredibly unaware of what incognito browsing is.
Newsflash: It just means your activities are not locally logged. That doesn't mean it's impossible for online parties to track you, just a teensie bit harder. Hell, it literally says so when you open the incognito tab.
THe phrasing of the message implies that you're still subject to eg. your employer logging your network access, and third-party sites logging your IP - both of which would be physically unavoidable and not within the browser's ability to control.
It very carefully avoids saying 'we're still selling your identity and browsing habits to ad companies and dataminers even though we could totally prevent that lol'.
They got sued anyways and lost, thus the change
"Haha April fools"
WINK
Delete is just the name of the new massive database they just spun up
I thought I read that they weren't going to outright delete the dataset, instead they were going to anonymize the data
Just because they have been caught logging that info. Imagine what else is logged and is still unknown.
Caught?
It was never a secret. The incognito page has had "this doesn't keep anyone from tracking you" for years.
I'm aware.
It was so obscenely frivolous every lawyer involved should be in prison for fraud. Google never at any point implied that incognito did anything to impact what websites you connected to knew or recorded.
It literally list the entities that can see your activity. Websites you visit, your employer/school, your isp. It conviniently leaves out the browser from this list. Its very misleading.
Because your browser isn't doing tracking. That's what you're turning off.
The absurd lawsuit was because Google still did the same things server side when you were in incognito mode.
Lmao
Who needs the data anyways when they've already trained their AI weights with it or sold it? No one needs the original anymore.