I feel like I’m the only one that remembers that incognito mode was only ever about keeping your browsing history private on the local machine, not anonymizing all your internet traffic.
People misunderstand the lawsuit so badly. It was about misleading statements made on the browser by Google while the company did other things to break those statements. It is NOT about them somehow secretly sophoning off browsing data, which they didn’t do.
It literally tells you that when you open an incognito tab.
People are just both tech illiterate and regular illiterate. And instead of taking responsibility, blame someone else.
Did it ever change to not being about keeping your browsing history private on the local machine?
In the ancient days, before the early 2000s there were no user and account management in webbrowsers at all. You started the browser and when you were done you closed it. If you wanted to hide your traces you could manually delete your history. Remember at that time this was on “the family computer”. So your wife or mother used the same machine and could find your history.
This was the situation when incognito mode was introduced, if you used the internet at that time it was perfectly reasonable, and you knew what it meant.
It just happened that a generation grew up who didn’t know how it worked and they assumed it’s different.
I always thought that incognito mode is just for porn browsing so it doesnt end up in the browser history.
People really think they go invisible with incognito?
Does the splash screen not still explicitly explain that it doesn’t make you invisible, it just means your browsing history is clear??
I use private browsing just for the vibes :3 I like the sneaky burglar aesthetic
It’s great when you need to login somewhere on a borrowed device. Do need to log out the previous user, and your login won’t linger after you’re done either.
Or you search something technical which is way over the head of the device owner. Just keeping them safe from seeing “evil hacker stuff”.
I’m surprised that this surprised people to begin with. The “You’ve gone Incognito” screen is very clear about what does or does not happen.
Maybe it’s a naming issue. Would “self destruct mode”, or “guest session” have been better?
I think guest/temporary session would have been better, especially since it’s used that way for stuff like website testing and troubleshooting.
It’s not going incognito from the browser and websites, it’s going incognito from your computer and the other people who use it. Did people actually think incognito mode was some sort of vpn?
Yes, people are that stupid.
Oh you got it wrong
It SPECIFICALLY collects data when in incognito, that it wouldn’t otherwise collect.
