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Of course it's okay and normal for a website to track a user even when they put their browser in Incognito mode. Anyone not understanding that is either not bei
by kccqzy 3y ago
Of course it's okay and normal for a website to track a user even when they put their browser in Incognito mode. Anyone not understanding that is either not being reasonable in the first place, or so ignorant about the basics of the web that their opinion is not worth listening to.
- shadowgovt 3y agoSo, you've just hit on a weakness of the legal "reasonable person principle" and, possibly, the reason Google decided to settle this case. By settling, they've left the legal question of what a "reasonable person" should expect here open. If someone else wants to sue later over this term or some related term maybe having a different layperson meaning, they can but they're back to square one: new case, new facts, no precedent. Had Google dragged this out, and the Court concluded that a "reasonable person" believed "incognito" meant something other than what every tech-head has understood it to mean for the past sixteen years... The industry would have been in for a world of hurt.