There are so many Chromium browsers these days that do everything Chrome does.
Not sure why anyone uses Chrome.
Not sure why anyone uses Chrome.
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Judge Rules Google Must Face Lawsuit Alleging Chrome Tracks Users in Incognito Mode
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because maybe corporations don’t want to put their faith in some open source soon to be abandon ware that some 14 year old wrote. There’s a difference between Google support and a bunch of fellas on github
Are chrome users Google customers? Chrome is a free, open source, opt-in web browser... It’s given to people for free, no one forces you to use it, google doesn’t upsell you anything related to chrome, how can you label a chrome user a “deceived customer”?
Here’s the definition for “customer”:
-a person who buys goods or a service
-a person who buys something
Perhaps add text-to-audio playback as an alternative to reading since many seem to be overlooking that clear verbiage.
But they’re not selling other companies your raw data. No company can just purchase and download a package of user data from google to be used however they want. That’s not how it works.
Google lets advertisers choose where to display their ads based on demographics, browsing history, etc. Google is using the data they get from users to improve they delivery of ads in its ad platform. That’s it.
There's some serious growing up which needs to be done by anyone with this mindset.
The plaintiffs who brought this lawsuit also need to learn how things work. Incognito means your browser history won't be stored locally. They never once said they wouldn't track you. This should be common knowledge.
calling it “incognito mode” doesn’t help spread the word
Maybe there’s a better term for it but that by itself isn’t going to go far in court when the page presented to the user tells them about how it works. If “but I didn’t read the terms of service” doesn’t fly in court, this won’t either.
Honestly it runs on Chromium and is supposed to be pretty good. If my company decides to switch from Chrome to Edge I wouldn’t cry. My work laptop would enjoy having some RAM free that’s for sure
It’s already gone far in court. Google already made that argument and the court rejected it.
No they basically tried to argue that it’s not worth showing up in court for and got denied a request to “cancel” it. All this is is an agreement for both sides to present their case in court. Hardly “gone far.”
Most chromium browsers out there are statistically not Edge. My comment applies, and if you read a bit later on you’d see that I commented about embracing Edge and how my work environment would benefit from it. Thanks!
Yep, and Stallman is saying my Mac is bad for me too!
The only reason I don't use Chrome is it's slow.
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Yes, and instead of "not completely invisible," I would say, totally visible. People should think of it as, you bought a computer, used it at home with your own IP and everything, then threw it away after browsing the web for a bit.
They didn't do anything this time. This is how Private Mode in Safari and Firefox work too.
Nobody likes google. Even if google is in the right here, I hope the judge still smacks them down. They deserve it
No, that's not what the article says. The lawsuit is over "incognito mode" not preventing ads and analytics, including Google's own, from attempting to track users. Google discloses this very plainly. It's not about Chrome itself tracking you.
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I don't like them either, but there has to be due process. Imagine this goes through, and it's used as precedent in other dumb cases, including ones against your favorite companies.
Chrome is unique as it does all the web caching in the Googles cloud. Any company with their own intranet with internal web pages would ban Chrome being on any company computer as a security violation as allowing Google access to the users browsing history if they wanted to access it.
Must be a joke, but another well hidden one. Luckily courts in any halfway decent country don’t work on “they deserve it” shouts.