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[–] 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

If anyone thought that Incognito somehow protected their data from websites or services, then that's their fault for jumping to that conclusion in the face of everything saying that's not the case.

Also...

In lawsuits settlement

In meme sentence, words disappear.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That was actually their lawyer's argument, that "incognito mode" being private was just something people assumed and ran with, not their fault.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I mean, they called it "Incognito".

    Incognito: having one's true identity concealed

    If it doesn't conceal your identity, then that's pretty clearly misleading. They're not selling to experts, the users of this are laypeople. It's like if you sold a "waterproof phone" and the packaging all made it look like it could withstand water, but then when it got wet it broke and you were like "people just assumed it was waterproof, it's not our fault".
    Sure experts could tell, and enthusiasts would read the expert opinions on it, but that's not something you should expect of laypeople considering how it is presented.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    "local Incognito" is some real mental gymnastics. If the witness protection program told people they'd help them go incognito, but only hid them from their own families and made it easy for strangers and enemies to find them, would you really consider that be what a reasonable interpretation?

    Stop defending people who use shit like huge ToS docs and dark patterns to weasel out of deceptive marketing

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