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Incognito is simply a poor name for this as it infers the identity is being concealed. Should be something more along the lines of 'unaccounted' or 'unrecorded'
by boredumb 6y ago
Incognito is simply a poor name for this as it infers the identity is being concealed.
Should be something more along the lines of 'unaccounted' or 'unrecorded' even 'off-the-record'.
If I go incognito I expect my identity to be concealed, if I am unrecorded I expect my identity to be obvious but for a trail of my actions to be off-the-record.
- jeffbee 6y agoEr, you are saying that it should do something other than what it does, and then also be called something else. Incognito perfectly describes what it actually does today.
- wtetzner 6y agoNo, it doesn't. In what way does incognito mode hide the user's identity? The article is about the fact that it doesn't.
- jeffbee 6y agoYou open a link in a new incognito window. In what way have you been identified to the peer host?
- kube-system 6y agoFor starters, the header of the IPv4/v6 packet you sent the request in has GDPR regulated PII -- your IP address.
- jeffbee 6y agoDid you expect it to just sit there and not establish connections? Try to participate in the debate in a way that isn't idiotic.
- kube-system 6y agoI was directly answering your question. Note that a court is not interested in my understanding of how Google's products work. They are concerned about a layperson's understanding. Of course, the technologies that much of the internet uses have a lot of inherent privacy implications. The question is whether Google should communicate these accurately to people who do not understand them.
- johncena33 6y agoI agree with you. The TCP/IP header argument is really bad. It shows how internet is full of people who will keep arguing for the sake of argument instead of trying to have a reasonable, pragmatic and honest discussion.
- kube-system 6y agoThat was an entirely honest answer. While these topics might seem over-simplistic to an industry insider, they are not trivial to laypersons. In fact, Google does explain that IP addresses are transmitted when using Incognito on this help page: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/7440301 https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/7440301
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- yesenadam 6y agoSpecifically how does it show that? I'm no expert, but it seems unlikely to me that "The TCP/IP header argument...shows how internet is full of people who will keep arguing for the sake of argument instead of trying to have a reasonable, pragmatic and honest discussion." That just seems like an off-topic rant added on there, bad-mouthing others while positioning yourself as one of the noble internet good guys. "Assume good faith".
- wtetzner 6y agoI open a link in a non-incognito window. In what way have I been identified by the peer host? My point is that incognito does nothing to hide your identity, and therefore "incognito" is a misleading name for the feature.
- croes 6y agoEver heard of Tor. That's incognito.