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PowerLies t1_is623zq wrote

Doesn’t chrome explicitly warn that incognito doesn’t hide activity from ISPs?

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TravisVZ t1_is63a8c wrote

There's literally a full-page explanation of what Incognito Mode does and doesn't do. While it doesn't say "Google will still track your usage", it also doesn't say "Your usage won't be tracked", and is pretty explicit that it's intended to prevent other users of this device from seeing your history.

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semitones t1_is9gccq wrote

Based on it saying "your ISP may still track you" I thought that implied that Google wasn't tracking you in the browser. So it was misleading for n=1

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Justausername1234 t1_is790ia wrote

> Chrome won’t save the following information: Your browsing history Cookies and site data Information entered in forms

> Your activity might still be visible to: Websites you visit Your employer or school Your internet service provider

Short of literally having people retype the disclaimer before letting them use incognito mode, it seems pretty absurd to blame google when they clearly give you all the information necessary to know what it does and doesn't do.

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DAM1313 t1_is7a04w wrote

Right, but I think people get hung up on all the stuff that chrome doesn't gather, and miss the fact that Google has other ways of tracking you via search and ads. Their fingerprinting methodology is definitely robust enough to gather data about you in incognito and they don't say that they don't do that.

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Justausername1234 t1_is7akmt wrote

> Your activity might still be visible to: Websites you visit

Google.com is a website.

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DAM1313 t1_is7bk4n wrote

I'm not disputing that the information is readily available. I'm telling you that people don't think about it that way and probably also don't read what you're referencing

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2Punx2Furious t1_is7oe4d wrote

I'm guessing that people that complain about this don't understand or even read those warnings.

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