In this thread: People (pretending to be?) incredibly unaware of what incognito browsing is.
Newsflash: It just means your activities are not locally logged. That doesn’t mean it’s impossible for online parties to track you, just a teensie bit harder. Hell, it literally says so when you open the incognito tab.
THe phrasing of the message implies that you’re still subject to eg. your employer logging your network access, and third-party sites logging your IP - both of which would be physically unavoidable and not within the browser’s ability to control.
It very carefully avoids saying ‘we’re still selling your identity and browsing habits to ad companies and dataminers even though we could totally prevent that lol’.
In this thread: People (pretending to be?) incredibly unaware of what incognito browsing is.
Newsflash: It just means your activities are not locally logged. That doesn’t mean it’s impossible for online parties to track you, just a teensie bit harder. Hell, it literally says so when you open the incognito tab.
THe phrasing of the message implies that you’re still subject to eg. your employer logging your network access, and third-party sites logging your IP - both of which would be physically unavoidable and not within the browser’s ability to control.
It very carefully avoids saying ‘we’re still selling your identity and browsing habits to ad companies and dataminers even though we could totally prevent that lol’.
They got sued anyways and lost, thus the change