This is exactly the kind of thing that led me to stop using Chrome last year. Happily defaulting to Firefox with Safari as a compatibility backup now.
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Google to Delete Chrome Incognito Browsing Data to Settle Lawsuit
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sources, not that I don't believe you, but a good citation here wouldn't hurt. peace
how laggy? it works well enough for me...its just a shame smoogle had to purchase YouTube years ago...smh, one of my favorite sites : (
nicely put, yes hopefully it Neva comes to this, apple being exposed as sleeping big time at the wheel of user privacy...
The hilarious thing is, that I'm sure many people use these modes thinking that they can look at anything and everything… without any trace.
Firefox on Windows, Safari on all my Apple devices. Couldn't be happier!
Why? I mean, I agree with "trust no one", but I also believe credit should be given to those trying to do the right things.
I don't think they would. Apple's whole point is that they make their money by selling products so they don't have to sell you. I have no reason to believe they aren't committed to that business model.
It'll be interesting to see how they manage that in the era of machine learning, but so far they've bent over pretty far backwards to maintain privacy.
Wrong.
Google is deprecating third-party cookies in H2 of this year only, not first-party cookies. So they are not getting rid of cookies entirely.
There is plenty of documentation on this on their dev site.
This is why I’m proud to say I haven’t used Chrome in 8 years.
It’s just a giant tracking app.
It’s just a giant tracking app.
Even if you use an alternative web browser, it is frightening that most web sites still use Google based cookies, and many will not function correctly without them.
Incognito mode for all browsers doesn’t save cookies, browser history, cache, etc to your local computer. It does nothing to prevent websites, ISPs, cell companies and whatever from tracking you. It may make it more difficult to track since no persistent data is saved between sessions. It is a useless mode unless you want to hide your browsing from other people in the household.
At least the code is open source and you can disable most telemetry from about:config (at least on desktop). Better than nothing!
EDIT: Also pretty decent privacy extensions (NoScript, uBlock, Decentraleyes, ClearURLs, Privacy Badger, etc).
Not sure what the big difference between Google and the dark web. Both collect data about you via nefarious means and then turn around and sell that data to anyone with money
This is where Apple appears to be different, they don’t sell the data to anyone with a checkbook.
Thanks, I know pretty well how it works from the technical standpoint. My question was rhetorical one.
If your IP is shared, it should help to prevent websites from tracking you. Cookies (and IP) are the most common things used for tracking. And if the IP is shared and cookies deleted, it helps to prevent tracking. Does not help with sofisticated tracking though - https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
Your choice. Can you give any examples of where Chrome is better?
The only issue I've found is that Safari blocks more links and websites. Wonder why it does that????
I don’t even have Chrome installed on my personal devices. I have it on my work computers and I almost never use it. I only start it if I absolutely have to.
The only product of Google’s that I use is YouTube and I wish I didn’t, but there is no alternative.
Right. Safari blocks a lot of them, and then some of them stop working. Strange, that...
Check the Safari privacy report.
Travel agency websites are the worst (e.g. Agoda). It even blocked seven trackers from MacRumors...
Why? Tell us. Curious minds want to know.
Safari's Private browsing, or regular browsing, for that matter, is not sending data back to Apple, but Chrome sends data back to Google in all modes of browsing. That is unacceptable! Incognito mode should have been 100% private like it is in Safari.
Not sure you understand it.
Private Browsing (first introduced in Safari) creates a separate sandboxed session — with separate cookies, etc. — all attached to the browser window. As soon as you close that window, it all goes poof! Nothing is retained.
Incognito Browsing in Chrome was _supposed_ to follow that same model, but was caught sending "anonymous" data back to Google anyway. That's not "the same as every other browser"... that's an intentional breach of trust implemented by Chrome engineers.
Google wrecked local ad-industry…worldwide. They should be smacked back to a «search engine wout ads» like they started out as.
This is all just honor system right? I mean Google can keep whatever they want somewhere, how would any legal entity be able to ensure no backups are kept somewhere. Seems impossible.