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Google updates Chrome's Incognito Mode disclaimer to admit it is tracking users (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I can’t remember the last time I used Google Chrome.

Nothing but Firefox and a Linux chromium browser.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Firefox's InPrivate mode is the exact same feature.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Not quite, in 2018 they did add tracking protection to their list of goals for their Private browsing mode and have implemented features to reduce tracking/fingerprinting/etc while in it. The main focuses though were still the same at the start though: protecting against local data being saved.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Private_Browsing

We target Private Browsing to 3 privacy goals; in a Private Browsing session, Firefox:

Doesn’t save the browsing history or display it in the Firefox UI

Prevents the session's data from writing to persistent storage

Protects the session's data from online tracking

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