• PoopMonster@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I’m curious as to what led people to believe otherwise before this update. I don’t use chrome but I recall it always being reffered to as porn mode. Meaning it just doesn’t save browsing history, no more no less.

    Did Google have misleading wording implying it was doing anything else?

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      10 months ago

      It also doesn’t preserve cookies after closing the window. I’m also curious what people expect that mode to do.

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        10 months ago

        Well, full incognito I guess, no trace for you, you can surf even the deep web… That for the less technical folks ofc.

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          10 months ago

          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.

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            10 months ago

            There’s money to be made with more people on the Internet, and especially dumb people. So that’s where it’s going.

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            10 months ago

            Have you seen when people cry when Netflix removes beloved content for them?

            Pathetic.

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              10 months ago

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

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                10 months ago

                Convenience mate, but they are making it less convenient each day so…

                Just to say this more clearly, I’d rather watch something on Stremio with Torrentio and Real Debrid than Netflix, even if it is the same movie or tv show or anime.

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      10 months ago

      I remember interviews with the development team about it. As far as I know they were always clear what was happening on the back end.

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      10 months ago

      Did Google have misleading wording implying it was doing anything else?

      Do they literally have anything else?

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        10 months ago

        Every time I’ve read the disclaimer it has been very clear and accurate, but don’t let me cloud the issue with facts.

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          10 months ago

          And it’s been that way since the beginning basically and is a lot more upfront about what it does and doesn’t protect against than other browsers like Safari.

          The new language just makes it even clearer it applies to Google’s online services and I don’t see that as a bad change though.