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[-] RatBin@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

Incognito mode is for hiding your search history from your relatives and friends. Corpos ready have that data anyways.

[-] rdyoung@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Exactly. And you can't be surprised when a company that also runs a search engine and ad network stores that data for other purposes.

I rarely jump in on things like this because of the lack of understanding of how things actually work as well as the inevitable responses like from OP and someone else I just responded to.

To repeat for those who may not get it just yet. Private browsing on FF and incognito mode on chrome are specifically for use when you use a shared pc or someone else's system to check your email or whatever. It's always been designed to protect locally not from the greater web.

I don't remember ever seeing or hearing anything from Google about this mode hiding data from them.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago

And hey if you were to somehow believe otherwise, well. You’d be stupid! Haw haw

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