Google was already in the middle of a class-action lawsuit regarding the incognito mode, where they were accused of tracking user activity. And, they agreed to settle the lawsuit.
To conclude that and move on, they will have to make the necessary changes to prevent another lawsuit against them.
No shit.
It’s never been a secret what incognito mode does. Websites have always still been able to do whatever they want with your traffic, because the browser doesn’t control that in any way.
Yeah. But you don’t get upvotes so easily by not shouting “Google bad!”.
While this might be obvious to you or I, it’s obviously not obvious to some people who think it gives them some semblance of privacy.
The only “private mode” of browsing is anything that’s not Chrome or Edge.
As I said in a different comment, it should have been obvious to anyone with with basic reading skills. Google may be a shitty company (it surely is), but the PEBCAK factor is strong factor in this case.
Disagree. Independently on the browser you use, website may track you server side and you wouldn’t ever know.
Firefox’s private mode says:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/common-myths-about-private-browsing
How much obvious does it need to be?
They lost a $5B lawsuit because the things on that page weren’t true.
Honestly, this article is pretty bad at explaining the problem here. It’s clear that other websites will try to track you, but the important part of this incognito drama is this:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/google-agrees-to-settle-in-chrome-incognito-mode-class-action-lawsuit/