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No, what’s not reasonable is expecting websites to change their behavior in any way because you’re in incognito mode. They will do all the same tracking they a

• salawat 3y ago
  It's in fact perfectly reasonable to expect it when combined with an asserted DNT bit. Also, given the years of technical discourse on this very forum on how to tell "is someone incognito'd" by fingerprinting and trying to track them regardless. Maybe you have a pony in this rodeo you don't want to change. That's fair. However, I held the entire rodeo in the first place was illegitimate. User tracking/cross-site data harvesting/tracking pixels should all have been legally strangled before an absurd number of people were unjustifiabpy enriched by selling something they had no business collecting in the first place. There are a non-trivial number of like-minded individuals who feel the same in both our cases, and by settling,.Google handily mooted the question for now.
  • kccqzy 3y ago
    Now that you say "combined with an asserted DNT bit" I can see where your confusion comes from. Incognito mode doesn't imply DNT. But I can see many non-technical users (as well as technical users who purposefully muddy the waters) equating Incognito mode with the DNT bit, and equating the DNT bit to be a legally binding request to the website not to track them.