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Google agrees to destroy browsing data collected in Incognito mode (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not sure which news website I should be using for the link, sorry! I'm happy to change it if anyone has a better one.

Google agreed to destroy or de-identify billions of records of web browsing data collected when users were in its private browsing “Incognito mode,” according to a proposed class action settlement filed Monday.

The proposal is valued at $5 billion, according to Monday’s court filing, calculated by determining the value of data Google has stored and would be forced to destroy and the data it would be prevented from collecting. Google would need to address data collected in private browsing mode in December 2023 and earlier. Any data that is not outright deleted must be de-identified.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Incognito/private are a bad name. You should pretty much use this to not save history, or to log into a site without using saves credentials and assume it's otherwise exactly the same as a normal browser session

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is that not how people have been using it?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Given the context of this thread, clearly not

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I'm truly confused about what people expected.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It's not exactly the same tho. At least in Firefox there were/are still quite a few differences. Notably experimental privacy features and anti-fingerprinting measures are enabled in private windows

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Fair enough, but it should not be considered "incognito"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Cookieless". (Is that even accurate?)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I like cookieless, but there's also the history saving part. So... "Forgetful" "Goldfish" "Uprooted"