To settle a years-long lawsuit, Google has agreed to delete “billions of data records” collected from users of “Incognito mode,” illuminating the pitfalls of relying on Chrome to protect your privacy.
  • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.worldEnglish
    781·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      When I was a kid, porn was the first thing I search for on Google.

      Imagine my shock when Internet Explorer kept suggesting what I had searched whenever I started typing in the Google search box…

      It took me a while to understand that it wasn’t Google, it was my browser

    • MonkderDritte@feddit.deEnglish
      116·
      1 year ago

      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.