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0 pointshn_throwaway_994y ago0 comments

I actually think that's less accurate. Google on the server side isn't in any preferential position, better or worse, than any other server-side analytics.

That's why I think this lawsuit is such bullshit, in that many of the "recommendations" in these comments are saying Google server technologies should specifically get called out (or worse, notified when a user is using Incognito Mode, which actually would be a gross privacy violation), when the whole point is that Chrome's Incognito Mode isn't any different that Safari or Firefox's Private Browsing, so why should Chrome call out something about Google's specific server-side analytics?

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pydry4y ago

Google on the server side can see that you are using incognito. It could choose not to track you out of respect for the choice it knows you made. It instead does the exact opposite.

hn_throwaway_99OP4y ago

> Google on the server side can see that you are using incognito

No, that's the whole point, Google on the server-side (or any other server-side components) shouldn't be able to know you're in Incognito. Chrome already goes to great lengths to try to hide the fact you're in Incognito to servers, because many servers try to block content if they could detect you're in Incognito.

So the only other option would be to only let Google server-side services know you're Incognito, and that actually would be a gross violation of privacy.

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