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The search giant will block third party tracking by default for people searching the web in private mode.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Caught?

It was never a secret. The incognito page has had "this doesn't keep anyone from tracking you" for years.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I'm aware.

It was so obscenely frivolous every lawyer involved should be in prison for fraud. Google never at any point implied that incognito did anything to impact what websites you connected to knew or recorded.

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