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Google agrees to destroy browsing data collected in Incognito mode
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why is incognito transmitting anything to anyone. Glad I switched to FF a while back.
Incognito/private are a bad name. You should pretty much use this to not save history, or to log into a site without using saves credentials and assume it's otherwise exactly the same as a normal browser session
Is that not how people have been using it?
Given the context of this thread, clearly not
I'm truly confused about what people expected.
It's not exactly the same tho. At least in Firefox there were/are still quite a few differences. Notably experimental privacy features and anti-fingerprinting measures are enabled in private windows
Fair enough, but it should not be considered "incognito"
"Cookieless". (Is that even accurate?)
I like cookieless, but there's also the history saving part. So... "Forgetful" "Goldfish" "Uprooted"
in the case of google it seems they were collecting your data too.
firefox doesnt do this like google, even outside incognito.
FireFox does collect some data, even in incorgnito, and even if you opt out of optional data collection. Last time I checked, you had to change a hidden flag (about:config) to truly stop them from collecting all data (and they could technically re-enable it in future updates).
well i said they dont do it the same way. not nearly to the same extent.
what flags do you change?
There are a bunch. I'll see if I can find the exhaustive list, but you can look for it by searching "Firefox disable telemetry flags about:config" on your search engine of choice.
I don't know exactly what flag it is but I'll give you a tip
Look at the arkenfox hardened config or the Librewolf project, both enhanced Firefox privacy and change some flags.
Hojestly I never interpreted it as anything other than this. It doesn't save cookies or history. Obviously it doesn't actually do anything to hide telemetry.
Why did you think it didn't?