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Doesn't the incognito splash screen say exactly that? As far as I recall it was always pretty clear about not doing anything apart from not saving your browser

Doesn't the incognito splash screen say exactly that? As far as I recall it was always pretty clear about not doing anything apart from not saving your browser history.

bee_rider 2y ago
It’s called incognito mode. Isn’t the icon a little spy or something? The fine-print might indicate otherwise, but I think it is obvious why non-technical people were confused.
- caseyohara 2y ago
  I'm curious, what would you call it instead? Safari and Firefox call it "Private Browsing". I wonder if that's any better.
  - bee_rider 2y ago
    Maybe the button could be something along the lines of “Keep website history.”
    - KeplerBoy 2y ago
      More like "pause website history"
      - bee_rider 2y ago
        It could be a toggle, which actually would probably be more representative of the significance. Having a whole “mode” makes it seem way bigger of a difference than it actually is.
- nl 2y ago
  It's not exactly fine print! It's clearly stated everytime you open an Incognito window. Your activity might still be visible to: Websites that you visit Your employer or school Your Internet service provider There's a "Learn more" link and if it was hidden there you'd have a point, but it's hard to imagine how to make this more clear.
tgsovlerkhgsel 2y ago
New text: "This won't change how data is collected by websites you visit and the services they use, including Google." Old text: "Going incognito doesn’t hide your browsing from your employer, your internet service provider, or the websites you visit." https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:components/new_or_sad_tab_strings.grdp https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:com... The claim of the lawyers here seems to be that because users told Google Chrome that they don't want to be tracked, they should be allowed to expect that Google knew that this user explicitly didn't want to be tracked, and that this was a Google-wide, not a local-only browser setting...

Doesn't the incognito splash screen say exactly that? As far as I recall it was always pretty clear about not doing anything apart from not saving your browser history.

bee_rider 2y ago

It’s called incognito mode. Isn’t the icon a little spy or something? The fine-print might indicate otherwise, but I think it is obvious why non-technical people were confused.

caseyohara 2y ago
I'm curious, what would you call it instead? Safari and Firefox call it "Private Browsing". I wonder if that's any better.
- bee_rider 2y ago
  Maybe the button could be something along the lines of “Keep website history.”
  - KeplerBoy 2y ago
    More like "pause website history"
    - bee_rider 2y ago
      It could be a toggle, which actually would probably be more representative of the significance. Having a whole “mode” makes it seem way bigger of a difference than it actually is.
nl 2y ago
It's not exactly fine print! It's clearly stated everytime you open an Incognito window. Your activity might still be visible to: Websites that you visit Your employer or school Your Internet service provider There's a "Learn more" link and if it was hidden there you'd have a point, but it's hard to imagine how to make this more clear.

tgsovlerkhgsel 2y ago

New text: "This won't change how data is collected by websites you visit and the services they use, including Google." Old text: "Going incognito doesn’t hide your browsing from your employer, your internet service provider, or the websites you visit." https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:components/new_or_sad_tab_strings.grdp https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:com... The claim of the lawyers here seems to be that because users told Google Chrome that they don't want to be tracked, they should be allowed to expect that Google knew that this user explicitly didn't want to be tracked, and that this was a Google-wide, not a local-only browser setting...