isaac: Google recorded data about every website visited in Incognito Mode and sold it to advertisers alongside the other browsing data in Chrome users’ profiles. Lmao. www.npr.org/2024/04/01/1...

Google recorded data about every website visited in Incognito Mode and sold it to advertisers alongside the other browsing data in Chrome users’ profiles. Lmao. www.npr.org/2024/04/01/1...

Google to delete search data of millions who used 'incognito' modewww.npr.org In an agreement released on Monday, Google said it will permanently remove information it secretly gathered when millions of people were searching the internet in

I look forward to my $8.58 settlement from them. I will enjoy that cup of coffee, for sure.

you don't tip your barista? for shame!

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I don't know enough to say I'm pro-Butlerian jihad, but am becoming jihad-curious. Maybe somebody has pamphlets they could leave with me.

Ned Ludd has entered the chat

Legend or real, those knitting frames had it coming.

Yeah this is the reason Chrome exists. They didn't provide a browser to you for free. If you use any Google product, they are selling every single thing you do with it. Don't use Chrome.

They will also continue to sell/collect incognito data, they'll just add in a layer of obfuscation and says its fine, it definitely can't be attached to individual people! But that'll be a lie, and the people buying it will know that!

Ugh. They've got me pretty good -- email, documents, photos, calendar. Hard to get out.

I NEVER understood those who rely in Gmail for their primary email account. I only have one because my job requires it, I use local ISP who offers actual privacy. Traffic information is not provided to third parties, nor used by the ISP.

What it amounts to is that I get shown ads for bikes, photo gear and flyfishing equipment. I can't get excited about google being privy to my emails. Others will feel differently, of course, but for me, eh, I don't really care.

And that’s totally fine. If you feel the invasion into your privacy is worth the cost of using their email service or whatever, that’s fine. You just gotta be careful since “I don’t care I have nothing to hide!” can very quickly turn into a visit from the cops if you search the wrong keywords.

For example, if you’re a woman searching for abortion information in a state where that isn’t legal. Google happily turns that info over to police upon request.

LOL can they delete it from the people they sold it to, I wonder?

Don't see why not, if Amazon can do it to people's books.

👍

“Dear Scam Corp, please promise you will delete all that private data we sold you. No, we won’t check.”

They don't literally sell the data. They sell a service (targeted advertising) that uses the data.

And won't pay a cent. IANAL but I don't begin to understand how this wasn't fraud.

Jhfc

A lesson in how Google makes "Do no evil" & "Bah humbug" synonymous. 😕

They have actually removed the "Do No Evil" part for years now.

Always worth reminding them. 😊

They had to change the motto from “don’t be evil” when they decided being evil was Fine, Actually

the first hint was that it was "don't be evil" in the first place rather than "be good"

Absolute cunts

people look for that in incognito mode

Don't be evil 🙄

god-DAMN-it

Never trusted Google’s Incognito mode. Or really any browser’s privacy mode. But especially Google.

Yeah, it tells you they do that when you open Incognito Mode.

*now

This warning has been present for years*

The catch is they didn’t grab it directly from the browser, for example by reading a cookie set while not in Incognito mode. That part of it worked. Google has other ways to track users that Chrome’s Incognito mode didn’t block. They could tell it was still you browsing Incognito…

…so they settled when sued because they felt the courts wouldn’t care *how* you were tracked, just that they were deceptive about tracking and Incognito mode. Other browsers (Safari for sure, maybe Firefox) do have tracking protection in private browsing mode that actively defeats Google’s attempts.

Incognito mode on any browsers intent has been to not track history of your current session. Nothing more. Im just personally failing to understand why people thought it was anything else. It has never been advertised to be a private session in any degree.

Because the implication of the name and iconography is privacy. That’s deceptive marketing. That’s illegal.

I don’t know about Chrome/Chromium but Safari has very strong tracking protection. It’s always on in private browsing and an option for normal browsing, with the caveat that it can (and does) break some sites.

I stopped using Google Chrome and most Google stuff a few years ago. May be weird that I trust Apple more than Google when it comes to privacy.

AFAIK, Apple has historically been fairly solid on security and privacy compared to most tech companies

Sundar Pichai is a creep.

Duck Duck Go, people

Can I get a copy of my history from them? There’s some good shit in there. 👍

Emotional attachment to specific browsers, apps, companies crack me up. Chrome & Gmail fanbois don't even realize how prettier & more organized Outlook is. 📌Even Microsoft's ethics is better — STILL: Stay ahead & flexible🔴 rb.gy/r6zc9x Instead of attached to Google, Avast, etc.🔴 rb.gy/1d9bzh ▼

Let's meet in 5 years to when we find every Windows keystroke and click was sent to Stargate

OpenAI and Microsoft Plan $100 Billion AI ‘Stargate’www.pymnts.com OpenAI and Microsoft are reportedly working on a $100 billion data center project involving an AI supercomputer dubbed “Stargate.”

#iTHiNKLabs Research🔴 rb.gy/r6zc9x ... is already monitoring the Stargate supercomputer project🔴 www.forbes.com/sites/cindyg... 📌But as in Boxing, there are LEVELS in documented AI abuse/security threats. 📌The latest Windows conspiracy theory ranks low... COMPARED TO: KNOWN global offenders.▼

Do not trust your privacy to a company whose main source of income is advertising.

Don't be evil. Don't be evil. Don't be evil. Don't be evil. Don't be evil. Don't be evil.

Anybody got that cartoon of chrome browser telling some guy "why don't u tell mr Incognito?" handy? I can't seem to find it...

I gotchu

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