Who gets to be the parents in this situation?

Until the idiots all complained about it being ‘creepy’. Ever since the tracking completely continued, but no longer with any benefit to us.

Great job idiots. Why people just don’t opt not to use features they find ‘creepy’ I’ll never understand. They are only satisfied if they bring it down for everyone.

Dealerships are literally the worst place to take a vehicle for a repair. They are in the car selling business, not the car fixing business.

Haha same despite not being active at all for months now. In any case, the email explains only residents of the USA are eligible.

Hard to call them stupid when they got to use it for free within the return window. Seems like a good deal. I agree with all the other points though.

Just ordered one. I had no real interest, but once you tell me I can’t have one…I must have one.

If Google specifically denied tracking that’s definitely misleading, but I’m unable to find a source for it and don’t recall it myself.

Saying that the sites you visit track you would absolutely lead me to believe that search engines sites are included. Since it would not be possible to provide results for the search without knowing what was searched for by the user. And where would they send those results to without knowing the users IP or other form of network address? It just doesn’t make any sense to think a search engine would not know who searched for what, since it is required for them to function.

I always saw Google as a website too. So if I type ‘giant donkey dicks’ into the url/search bar, then Google is obviously going to know my preference for large donkey dicks. Since I googled it.

Or are these hypothetical common folk typing in full urls themselves or something? If it’s auto-filling in any way, that’s thanks to Google and they can only provide it if aware what has been typed so far.

Yep, I never switched from torrents as I never found anything more convenient.

Aww man I thought I found one! Guess I’m back down to zero people.

I don’t understand paying for streaming media at all… but I’m from the before times.

So do you feel the naming was inherently misleading which led you astray? Because incognito mode absolutely kept things ‘sneaky’ in terms of hiding the things I look up from other people who use the same computer. Which is specifically what Google said it would do and showed examples of in TV commercials. And it definitely did (and still does) that.

I’m also struggling to understand what you feel you ‘trusted’ Google on exactly. What did they tell you that you believed but, as it turns out, was not true?

I can bitch about chrome all day long… but none of that bitching will be about incognito mode as that was and continues to be an useful feature that did exactly what I expected it to do. Everything it said it did, it did.

Just because people made up their own imaginary ideas about what they think it does isn’t really Google’s fault. If people think snorkels allow them to scuba dive and then drown, I’m not about to blame the snorkel maker that wrote ‘diving googles and snorkel’ on the packaging.

The amount of words needed to fully explain this to tech illiterate idiots would be so many that those idiots would just argue they cannot be expected to read all of it. These people already do this with the terms + conditions documents they agree to.

Incognito mode did every single thing it said it did and behaved exactly as I expected from day one. Is there a single user here who actually was surprised by how it worked? Did anyone honestly think it was like Tor or something? Why? Where did anyone ever get that idea at all?

It seems the whole last decade has been focused on dumbing the Internet down for the dumbest 10% of the population. The Internet was better when it was less inclusive.

I don’t believe it was ever called ‘private mode’, or am I wrong on this?

Which only has value to the corporation if the people driven there watch ads on said page.

Capitalism is the problem with capitalism. And It’s not an excuse to be shitty, but the cause itself.

Yeah I think I’ll stick to piracy thanks.

I loved Sync for Reddit as an app. But I already was seeing Reddit go downhill even before they killed the apps, that just sealed the deal for me. I was a digg refugee so sadly I’ve been through this before already.