• seralth@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    It IS local incognito. By definition the name is accurate.

    The wording on the warning both BEFORE AND AFTER the change says explicitly websites you visit, and anything external WILL still record and track you.

    It said BEFORE AND AFTER that ONLY local things such as history omor cookies arnt saved.

    It is 100% incognito. For the local browser. It warms BEFORE AND AFTER that it’s not real privacy.

    They changed the wording basically from an assumption people will read the examples given on the SAME page as the warning. To having the examples built into the warning.

    Basically they assumed their users could read. They were wrong, people can’t read. So they have to scream it now.

    • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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      4 hours ago

      “local Incognito” is some real mental gymnastics. If the witness protection program told people they’d help them go incognito, but only hid them from their own families and made it easy for strangers and enemies to find them, would you really consider that be what a reasonable interpretation?

      Stop defending people who use shit like huge ToS docs and dark patterns to weasel out of deceptive marketing