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Google settles $5bn lawsuit for 'private mode' tracking (www.bbc.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The irony with this is if incognito was really untracable then the government would be pushing to make it less secure just like they're already actively trying to force backdoors in Signal and other actually private services because "think of the children".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I just want to chat with my friends in private, we're not talking about anything bad just video games

But the children, Scrubbles, think of how they'll be exploited

No I think there are other ways to solve that problem that don't involve reading all of my messages. What about hashing word combinations, or AI that could give a warning indicator to companies without giving out all of the...

THE CHILDREN, THEY NEED OUR PROTECTION

o ok.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Well if you're not doing anything wrong why try to hide it at all?