Of course they do, they’ve already scanned all of them and updated their respective user profiles.
Am I the only one who never thought that incognito mode or the equivalent on FF was protecting me from anything other than anyone else who may use the same pc? I don’t share my pc with anyone so I only use those modes when I think a website is acting up because of previously stored cookies, credentials or my various script blockers.
Incognito mode is for hiding your search history from your relatives and friends. Corpos ready have that data anyways.
Exactly. And you can’t be surprised when a company that also runs a search engine and ad network stores that data for other purposes.
I rarely jump in on things like this because of the lack of understanding of how things actually work as well as the inevitable responses like from OP and someone else I just responded to.
To repeat for those who may not get it just yet. Private browsing on FF and incognito mode on chrome are specifically for use when you use a shared pc or someone else’s system to check your email or whatever. It’s always been designed to protect locally not from the greater web.
I don’t remember ever seeing or hearing anything from Google about this mode hiding data from them.
And hey if you were to somehow believe otherwise, well. You’d be stupid! Haw haw
laughs in obscene money
Yeah it is more of a debugging tool then anything.
Private mode is for when I want to pull up some weird YouTube video where some guy silently melts copper into bars and not have it clog up my partner’s reccos
No you are not,
take this link and share it around to others who trust them…I think you misread me.
I never thought that these modes were protecting me from anything except those who shared the same pc. Apparently I am the only one who understands the way the internet works and that nothing you do or any software you run on your system can stop every website and server you interact with or that passes on your data packets to the next server from logging everything it can about you.
How do people think that sites like reddit cross check and correlate data from users to find those with multiple accounts that are attempting to evade bans? There is so much data that we don’t even know we are creating.
I’m all for privacy and anonymity when and where it makes sense but it seems like people here have no idea what the difference between the two are and just how difficult it is and how much extra friction it brings to attempt to be completely anonymous and private via a system designed to connect people.
I’m the only one…
OK blocked. Come on for real.
Reread the original comment, and try being nicer. You’re wrong.
I know what he is saying. There is ways to speak. If he think he is the only one to know (and in the meantime he doesn’t know what i know… ), then its ok for me.
Why he think he is giving me a lessons.
I’ve laughed at the title of the link, like a lot of u… Just the word agree. And even, on the tech side, I’m OK. I’m just sharing… A link…Not sharing my knowledge here… And there is way to do so. He is the only to know ? OK end of discuss for me
It sounds like English is not your first language, so I understand your mistake.
The original comment asks “Am I the only one?” It does not declare “I am the only one.” The order of the words “Am” and “I” changes the meaning.
Nothing hostile was meant or implied. Simple misunderstanding! 😊
Look the answer then ;-)
And I fucking agree on the tech side…
Well.
Why doesn’t this surprise me?
Because they’ve already gleaned what they wanted.
Please teach your kids that incognito doesn’t mean anonymous or private. My 10 year old has been thinking that that was the case until he mentioned it to me the other day and I educated him about it. Ngl, it was so adorable :)
Incognito is just a word that means things.
Not those things. Well - yes, it does mean that but it doesn’t mean that hahaha. No, we just called it that but that’s not on us, if you don’t know that, then that’s on you for believing in the definition of words. Also this message is private. And secret. When we say “let’s all murder trump” over and over - it is the name of the product, so you can’t blame us for saying it all the time - it doesn’t actually mean that, you see. I mean, obviously. You’d have to be a Grade-A moron to think it was anything but a secret message that was private and didn’t mean what the words usually mean. Pfft.
It’s all fine, they have another set of billions of files as copies so they can safely remove the original collections.
dont trust their allegations
It’s gross they were collecting them in the first place.
This topic was already covered over a week ago.
Are they going to do it tho ?
Oh suuuuure! Sure. Absolutely. Yes. Ha ha of course! Of course.
I mean, have you ever known the world’s largest data mining company to not permanently delete data they could otherwise profit from?
Happens all the time, probably.
