• go $fsck yourself@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    If anyone thought that Incognito somehow protected their data from websites or services, then that’s their fault for jumping to that conclusion in the face of everything saying that’s not the case.

    Also…

    In lawsuits settlement

    In meme sentence, words disappear.

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      12 hours ago

      That was actually their lawyer’s argument, that “incognito mode” being private was just something people assumed and ran with, not their fault.

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        I mean, they called it “Incognito”.

        Incognito: having one’s true identity concealed

        If it doesn’t conceal your identity, then that’s pretty clearly misleading. They’re not selling to experts, the users of this are laypeople. It’s like if you sold a “waterproof phone” and the packaging all made it look like it could withstand water, but then when it got wet it broke and you were like “people just assumed it was waterproof, it’s not our fault”.
        Sure experts could tell, and enthusiasts would read the expert opinions on it, but that’s not something you should expect of laypeople considering how it is presented.