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What do you mean? It doesn't matter how many popups or CAPTCHAs the sites make you deal with: as long as you don't log in to your Google account, any searches y

What do you mean? It doesn't matter how many popups or CAPTCHAs the sites make you deal with: as long as you don't log in to your Google account, any searches you make with an incognito window shouldn't be associated with your Google identity. They'll be associated with your IP address (and of course browsers can in principle be fingerprinted, etc.) If there's any reason to believe that Google tries to defeat incognito mode and associate that history with a particular Google account, I haven't heard it, and it seems really unlikely, given the things people are expected rely on incognito mode for.

lupire 5y ago
> given the things people are expected rely on incognito mode for. I don't think Google tracks these things in regular search either. My interests profile doesn't include my favorite porn.
new_guy 5y ago
Google in $5bn lawsuit for tracking in 'private' mode: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52887340 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52887340
- MaxBarraclough 5y ago
  Discussed [0] and elsewhere. I have to agree with [1] that Google is completely in the right here. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23552967 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23552967 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23554678 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23554678
pizza234 5y ago
I'm not concerned about the privacy, rather, that this is a strategy to attack it indirectly. I believe that they're just trying to make life harder for those who browse in private mode, in order to push them to always stay logged in. After all, Google built a browser based on the concept of user being logged in (this was one of the primary reasons why I've moved from Chrome). This is nothing new, as at least some news paper had explicitly rules against it, for a long time. On an extreme and hopefully far fetched scenario, I image this becoming common practice, and Google says that you have only a certain amount of searches before you must log in. I think the current situation as a sort of middle ground (or step towards).

lupire 5y ago

> given the things people are expected rely on incognito mode for. I don't think Google tracks these things in regular search either. My interests profile doesn't include my favorite porn.

new_guy 5y ago

Google in $5bn lawsuit for tracking in 'private' mode: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52887340 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52887340

MaxBarraclough 5y ago
Discussed [0] and elsewhere. I have to agree with [1] that Google is completely in the right here. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23552967 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23552967 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23554678 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23554678

pizza234 5y ago

I'm not concerned about the privacy, rather, that this is a strategy to attack it indirectly. I believe that they're just trying to make life harder for those who browse in private mode, in order to push them to always stay logged in. After all, Google built a browser based on the concept of user being logged in (this was one of the primary reasons why I've moved from Chrome). This is nothing new, as at least some news paper had explicitly rules against it, for a long time. On an extreme and hopefully far fetched scenario, I image this becoming common practice, and Google says that you have only a certain amount of searches before you must log in. I think the current situation as a sort of middle ground (or step towards).