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[–] 87 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Yes, this will definitely happen

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    You laugh but it would be really dumb for this not to happen. They would be held liable and most of the data they collect doesn't come from incognito

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Sure they will be held liable. Just like everything else they are held liable for.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Why isn't there a sarcasm flare on lemmy (heck, on the Internet)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Back in my day, we didn’t need it! Sarcasm was much more understood on LUE, Gen[M]ay, SA, and DDRFreak!

    (I haven’t been to these sites in a long time, so please don’t crucify me if they’re shitholes now. Other than DDRFreak. RIP DDRFreak)

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  • [–] 67 points 2 years ago

    Of course they do, they've already scanned all of them and updated their respective user profiles.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (25 children)

    Am I the only one who never thought that incognito mode or the equivalent on FF was protecting me from anything other than anyone else who may use the same pc? I don't share my pc with anyone so I only use those modes when I think a website is acting up because of previously stored cookies, credentials or my various script blockers.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Incognito mode is for hiding your search history from your relatives and friends. Corpos ready have that data anyways.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Exactly. And you can't be surprised when a company that also runs a search engine and ad network stores that data for other purposes.

    I rarely jump in on things like this because of the lack of understanding of how things actually work as well as the inevitable responses like from OP and someone else I just responded to.

    To repeat for those who may not get it just yet. Private browsing on FF and incognito mode on chrome are specifically for use when you use a shared pc or someone else's system to check your email or whatever. It's always been designed to protect locally not from the greater web.

    I don't remember ever seeing or hearing anything from Google about this mode hiding data from them.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    No you are not,
    take this link and share it around to others who trust them..

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (17 children)

    I think you misread me.

    I never thought that these modes were protecting me from anything except those who shared the same pc. Apparently I am the only one who understands the way the internet works and that nothing you do or any software you run on your system can stop every website and server you interact with or that passes on your data packets to the next server from logging everything it can about you.

    How do people think that sites like reddit cross check and correlate data from users to find those with multiple accounts that are attempting to evade bans? There is so much data that we don't even know we are creating.

    I'm all for privacy and anonymity when and where it makes sense but it seems like people here have no idea what the difference between the two are and just how difficult it is and how much extra friction it brings to attempt to be completely anonymous and private via a system designed to connect people.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago*

    Because they've already gleaned what they wanted.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    It's all fine, they have another set of billions of files as copies so they can safely remove the original collections.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    We already profited from that data, so who cares.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Closed app by data mining company, of course they get all the data they can.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Incognito is just a word that means things.

    Not those things. Well - yes, it does mean that but it doesn’t mean that hahaha. No, we just called it that but that’s not on us, if you don’t know that, then that's on you for believing in the definition of words. Also this message is private. And secret. When we say “let’s all murder trump” over and over - it is the name of the product, so you can’t blame us for saying it all the time - it doesn’t actually mean that, you see. I mean, obviously. You’d have to be a Grade-A moron to think it was anything but a secret message that was private and didn’t mean what the words usually mean. Pfft.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Ever since I used a browser, both Firefox and Chrome always clearly stated, that Incognito Tabs are not private browsing, and they said so in every Tab in very clear terms. Why is that controversial then?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    That is what a lot of people don't understand, incognito mode only delete the local storage of the browser data (cookies, cache, service workers, etc), the Cookie Autodelete or SiteBleacher extensions do exact the same in normal browsing, but don't prevent that the web pages log the activity in their server, they see you in the same way as in the normal mode, your IP, browser you use, OS, fingerprints, etc..if you don't use a VPN. The issue is that in the case of Chrome your activity data is sended to Google, independent of incognito or normal browsing.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    dont trust their allegations

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You Guys have to just put up with it and there's nothing you can do about it unless you start protesting , the kind of protest that happens in France. Get politicians to act however its in the politicians best interest that they keep gathering data so that they know when a protest happen whom to prosecute

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    It's gross they were collecting them in the first place.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Are they going to do it tho ?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Oh suuuuure! Sure. Absolutely. Yes. Ha ha of course! Of course.

    I mean, have you ever known the world’s largest data mining company to not permanently delete data they could otherwise profit from?

    Happens all the time, probably.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    This topic was already covered over a week ago.

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