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    Question You Didn't Think Google's 'Incognito' Mode Really Protected Your Privacy, Did You?

    A federal judge is “disturbed” by Google’s so-called privacy practices after learning in court that the popular Chrome browser makes users’ information available to the company’s data-harvesting server even when users are browsing “incognito.”

    The help page for Chrome’s incognito mode promises users that they can “browse in private” if they “don’t want Google Chrome to remember your activity.”

    Google’s Chrome might not remember your activity locally, on your computer or on your smartphone, but it seems that Google’s servers remember everything.

    San Jose-based U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh wants to know “about what exactly Google does” as she presides over a class-action suit seeking “$5,000 in damages for each of the millions of people whose privacy has been compromised since June of 2016.”

    According to a Bloomberg report filed late last week, “Koh said she finds it ‘unusual’ that the company would make the ‘extra effort’ of data collection if it doesn’t use the information to build user profiles or targeted advertising.”

    Unusual? Hoovering up data from any available source and without consent is just business as usual for the company whose corporate motto is “Don’t be evil.”

    Google is the same company whose former CEO, Eric Schmidt, responded to privacy complaints about Google Maps cars photographing literally everything they drove past by saying, “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”


    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stephen-green/2021/03/01/you-didnt-think-googles-incognito-mode-really-protected-your-privacy-did-you-n1429202

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    no shit. the purpose of it is so you can hide your porn browsing from your wife, not google. lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Money Dolla View Post
    no shit. the purpose of it is so you can hide your porn browsing from your wife, not google. lol
    Google is Fallopian-tube deep up in everybody that uses their phones and their services.
    You can skirt around it with something you can sign out of Google with.
    Once you sign into a Google account with an Android phone, you can never sign out, and they'll be beaming ads at you.
    Just something to keep in mind..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Dillon View Post
    Google is Fallopian-tube deep up in everybody that uses their phones and their services.


    if you are online everything you do is being tracked and you are being sold a truman story bill of goods in content serviced to you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Money Dolla View Post
    if you are online everything you do is being tracked and you are being sold a truman story bill of goods in content serviced to you.
    I'm not.

    See, I learned how the internet works in around 1997.
    Ask one of the mods who I am, they don't rightly know. ..LOL!
    I'm not a bad man.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Dillon View Post
    Google is Fallopian-tube deep up in everybody that uses their phones and their services.
    And they use what they know to finger you to the feds as a "domestic terrorist".

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Anonymous View Post
    And they use what they know to finger you to the feds as a "domestic terrorist".
    That's why I'm real careful with them.

    They should never have been allowed to have that much internet going through their servers.
    I think Barry did that.
    Going further back, GoDaddy should never have been allowed to buy up so many domains.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Dillon View Post
    I'm not.

    See, I learned how the internet works in around 1997.
    Ask one of the mods who I am, they don't rightly know. ..LOL!
    I'm not a bad man.


    Lol I know too, and know how insidious it is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Dillon View Post
    That's why I'm real careful with them
    You only think they don't know everything. Ask Ed Snowden how that works.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Anonymous View Post
    You only think they don't know everything. Ask Ed Snowden how that works.



    exactly.

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    Someones wife busted him for watching porn. Poor Anonymous.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Concart View Post
    Someones wife busted him for watching porn. Poor Anonymous.
    You only thought you were anonymous, but your wife installed a keylogger.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Anonymous View Post
    You only thought you were anonymous, but your wife installed a keylogger.
    Lol not my wife. She’s a lib.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Concart View Post
    Lol not my wife. She’s a lib.
    She may be stupid like you say, but she got a USB with the program on it from the young buck she's banging behind your back. She knows how to stick something in a slot, that's for sure. Now she knows all about your porn habits.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Anonymous View Post
    She may be stupid like you say, but she got a USB with the program on it from the young buck she's banging behind your back. She knows how to stick something in a slot, that's for sure. Now she knows all about your porn habits.
    She watches more porn than I do. I win.

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