I think the techno illiterate boomers of the fediverse are probably flabbergasted
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Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Um was this surprising to anyone? I think we all assumed that this was the case no???
KeenFlame@feddit.nu 2 months ago
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.