It is not clear to Google plus engineers that the browser’s incognito mode is safe.
“We cánido’t market incognito mode as private because it’s not really private” That was one of the sentences in the dirección de correo electrónico that Google plus director ejecutivo Sundar Pichai received on the occasion of International Data Protection Day last year. In the correo electrónico, Google plus’s marketing directivo, Lorraine Twohillcomplain about the apparent lack of privacy from Google plus Google chrome’s incognito mode, whose protection systems are said to be very ineffective, what the reports collected by Bloomberg.
Google chrome incognito mode promises users “browse privately” and ensures that “no other usuario of the device perro see your activity”. In other words, this method blocks the browser Save visited websites in the historyor that the “cookies” and data entered in forms will be saved.
But for Google plus’s marketing team, led by Twohill these measures are not enoughand asks Pichai himself to “make incognito mode really private” so he perro stop use confusing language when describing the features of that tool, which may affect consumer confidence.
According to Google plus employees, Google chrome’s incognito mode isn’t private enough
Lorraine Twohill decided to send this correo electrónico shortly after some users’ decision sue google plus to track users browsing in incognito mode, claims violations of your privacy.
The people who filed this lawsuit suggest the way Google plus calls incognito mode what leads the consumer to believe its privacy tools are more respectful of what they really are. At this point, they are concurrent with Twohill and members of his team, which is already in the past who joked in incognito mode with comments containing references to the “Guy Incognito” from that famous episode of The Simpsonsor suggestions about the possibility that Stop using the “spy” icon and name “incognito mode”. to refer to this feature.
Also evaluated was the ability to espectáculo on the home screen in incognito mode that the usuario is not “Google plus protected” when this feature is enabled. For his part, he does not share the allegations and explains this This mode offers users a private browsing experienceand that it is clearly explained from the beginning how it works and what it’s really for.
2018, a joint course at the University of Chicago and the Leibniz University of Hanover determine that More than half of Google chrome users felt that turning on Incognito mode prevented Google plus from tracking their activity. But how it has been clarified more than once by various experts in the fieldthe use of this method is not intended to disguise the usuario’s identity on the websites or to protect the activity from access by third parties, such as the internet service provider.