Pretty sure it’s always been upfront with that it still tracks you? I always thought of it as a “don’t store history and cookies locally” thing and nothing more. Maybe I read that disclaimer with more cynicism than most?
The op link hit a paywall for me, this one is working:
the company will now pay “zero” dollars as part of the settlement after earlier facing a $5 billion penalty.
I guess they would call that a win
I’m just using it to prevent my depraved, shameful porn searches from entering my browser’s autocomplete corpus. Learned that one fairly early on.
People could just use another browser profile, with it’s own set of bookmarks and uBlock in strict mode… Never saw much sense in “incognito” mode.
Why don’t we replace the low effort open incogento mode with a more convoluted creating of a browser profile and installation and configuration of an app. You’re full of the best ideas.
Do the chromium based browsers like Vivaldi report this information back to Google too?
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.
