To settle a years-long lawsuit, Google has agreed to delete “billions of data records” collected from users of “Incognito mode,” illuminating the pitfalls of relying on Chrome to protect your privacy.
Nowhere on that page does it say that the browser is still tracking them. The whole point of the lawsuit, which Google just settled, is that that verbage is not clear enough to nontechnical users that Google still knows what sites they’re visiting. People don’t know shit about computers, if they advertise a “privacy feature” that says their searches and history aren’t being saved, they assume they’re not being tracked. People absolutely should have a basic understanding of data privacy but that doesn’t mean it’s okay to take advantage of those who don’t.
Google should have to clearly communicate to users what they did. Only few will even read and know about this. Rarely anybody will care.
Misbehavior on such a scale should at least be communicated so users can make an informed decision on their continued trust.
The incognito mode start page literally tells you this. I do not know, how this is news.
It says it because of this lawsuit.
I’m sure it always done so. I’ve been aware of this the moment incognito mode was introduced.
Edit: here’s an old screenshot of Google chrome describing what incognito is: https://tfpcservices.net/software-tips-3/
Nowhere on that page does it say that the browser is still tracking them. The whole point of the lawsuit, which Google just settled, is that that verbage is not clear enough to nontechnical users that Google still knows what sites they’re visiting. People don’t know shit about computers, if they advertise a “privacy feature” that says their searches and history aren’t being saved, they assume they’re not being tracked. People absolutely should have a basic understanding of data privacy but that doesn’t mean it’s okay to take advantage of those who don’t.
It tells you that you can still be tracked. Maybe not explicitly by Google themselves, but it says it won’t stop tracking.