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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago

The Incognito Mode Myth Has Fully Unraveled

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The Incognito Mode Myth Has Fully Unraveled

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago

To settle a years-long lawsuit, Google has agreed to delete “billions of data records” collected from users of “Incognito mode,” illuminating the pitfalls of relying on Chrome to protect your privacy.

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Do the chromium based browsers like Vivaldi report this information back to Google too?
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  Isn’t it about general tracking data, the internet instead of the browser?

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