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by quatrefoil
815 days ago
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Guest mode does not honor your settings. It mostly defaults to install-time configuration. Incognito mode is fine. It doesn't persist data, it doesn't give websites access to existing main-profile data (cookies, etc), and it actually honors the settings of the profile it was spawned from. None of this robustly prevents fingerprinting, but neither does switching to another browser or wiping your profile clean. There's just a bunch of system and network characteristics that leak info because of how the web is designed. Google didn't make it so and I don't think they're using it to serve you ads. I think two things can simultaneously be true. Google's privacy practices aren't great, and they weren't actually doing anything that a reasonable person wouldn't expect to be happening in incognito. This was a lawsuit filed to shake them down, not to benefit the consumer. And apparently, it was flimsy enough that it started with a $5B demand, and is ending with no payout at all. |
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I'm by no means an expert, but doesn't the Mullvad browser in combination with a (trusted) VPN robustly prevent fingerprinting? It got a pretty good response when it was posted here a while ago. I'd be interested to know by someone more knowledgeable just how robustly it prevents fingerprinting.