The search giant will block third party tracking by default for people searching the web in private mode.

  • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    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.

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      9 months ago

      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.

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    9 months ago

    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.

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      9 months ago

      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’.

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      9 months ago

      I thought I read that they weren’t going to outright delete the dataset, instead they were going to anonymize the data

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    9 months ago

    Just because they have been caught logging that info. Imagine what else is logged and is still unknown.

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    9 months ago

    Who needs the data anyways when they’ve already trained their AI weights with it or sold it? No one needs the original anymore.