I think the techno illiterate boomers of the fediverse are probably flabbergasted
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Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Um was this surprising to anyone? I think we all assumed that this was the case no???
KeenFlame@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
cRazi_man@europe.pub 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
That was actually a result of this issue, where Google placed misleading statements in incognito and then proceeded to actively go around them.
seralth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It actually had bullet points below the initial warning that said websites could track you.
The big warning on top was fine before. It could have been worded better and the update made its wording better. But below that warning it’s always had bullet points over examples of what it would and would not save in website tracking as well as browser data from searches could be saved. Sure, they didn’t explicitly say Google would save your data, but Google being a web browser falls under that bullet point and Google being a website falls under that bullet point. A website falls under that bullet point.
This is people not being able to understand what words mean.
themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.