Chrome updates Incognito warning to admit Google tracks users in “private” mode
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Chrome updates Incognito warning to admit Google tracks users in “private” mode::Warning added to Chrome Canary as Google settles Incognito class-action suit.
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Ive heard about it what is it please explain.
Edit: seems it nolonger maintaned but found the searxng fork been running it a while now works great no complaints from me.
More or less SearX is an open source meta-search engine that can be customized and configured to look through a wide array of existing search engines.
Anybody can run a SearX instance, and many do, with different backend configuration, and sometimes a bit of a customized front end.
Https://searx.space has an updated and detailed list of these instances.
Can i just host it on localhost with a daemon cos my server is at home and running at possibly the worse internet speeds in history.
You can. That is how I use it.
Well thank you kind lemmyer. You have convinced me. Been on duckduck go for a while but when times get desperate i go to google and its making less and less helpfull results.
Unfortunately startpage has been owned by an ad agency for some years now.
Non-standard reminder that DDG has sold out users in the past.
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I use Brave, is this a Lemmy Standard?
No, their CEO is a homophobe. And Brave is lipstick on a Chrome.
Thank you. The more you know.
What you should know is that the CEO, like most CEOs, is not a great guy and their "homophobe" accusation boils down to a single $1k donation >10 years ago.
Also almost no one seems to understand that Chromium-based browsers are not the same thing as Chrome.
Degoogled chrome and chromium are pretty good.
As to brave, I think the crypto stuff turned people off
This... this is news to people?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The change is being made as Google prepares to settle a class-action lawsuit that accuses the firm of privacy violations related to Chrome's Incognito mode.
This won't change how data is collected by websites you visit and the services they use, including Google."
The stable and Canary warnings both say that your browsing activity might still be visible to "websites you visit," "your employer or school," or "your Internet service provider."
We asked Google when the warning will be added to Chrome's stable channel and whether the change is mandated by or related to the pending settlement of the privacy class-action suit.
Incognito mode in Chrome will continue to give people the choice to browse the Internet without their activity being saved to their browser or device."
On December 26, 2023, Google and the plaintiffs announced that they reached a settlement that they planned to present to the court for approval within 60 days.
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So to clarify, this is saying that if you're logged into your Google account in Chrome and you launch an incognito window, your browsing activity will still get associated with your Google account, which will affect your ad recommendations? Is that right?
It's saying that incognito mode doesn't prevent people on the web from tracking you, that's all.
I.e. enabling incognito mode could still have an entity profile you, etc. like your ISP, government, or any corporation that you visit the website for.
This is a nothingburger.