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by Dylan16807 6 days ago
It's reasonably detectible. And it wasn't about "websites" logging you in general, it was about Google in particular logging you, the same company that was making the misleading privacy promises. They deserved the slap over it. And it required a bit more than basic tech knowledge to understand what was misleading, it was a real problem.
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MrNeon 6 days ago
"Now you can browse privately, and other people who use this device won’t see your activity. However, downloads and bookmarks will be saved."

Can you tell me how the original Incognito mode disclaimer was misleading?

Even if it is detectable it shouldn't be detected, why would I want websites to act differently when I'm in private mode?

And if it did block Google's services from capturing the same data as they capture in non-private mode it would act as a sort of ad blocker, why should that be a function of private mode?

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Dylan16807 6 days ago
"privately" was off which is why it says "more privately" now. The combination of "privately" and "chrome won't save your history" isn't a good enough way to explain that the rest of Google is actively countering your attempt at privacy.

> why should that be a function of private mode?

Because it's the same company that was promising the privacy.

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MrNeon 6 days ago
>"privately" was off which is why it says "more privately" now

The actually significant change is the addition of "This won’t change how data is collected by websites you visit and the services they use, including Google."

Which was obvious to anyone with basic tech knowledge already.

>Because it's the same company that was promising the privacy.

But WHICH privacy? It never promised that websites won't know who you are, you can still login into websites, you're still in the same IP. Should it automatically disable all cookies and route you through seven proxies so you can be truly "private"?

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Dylan16807 6 days ago
> WHICH privacy

The part about not collecting data. The kind of stuff chrome.exe is still doing.

I don't even agree it was obvious to anyone with basic tech knowledge that google.com would still super aggressively track you. Third parties yes, but not google itself. That was a policy decision they made. (Any 'how could they know' is post-hoc justification far more than real technical problem.)

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