soloojos (Lemmy)@feddit.cl to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoPeople left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about youwww.uniladtech.comexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down10
arrow-up15arrow-down1external-linkPeople left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about youwww.uniladtech.comsoloojos (Lemmy)@feddit.cl to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square32fedilink
minus-square👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoI have all my histories turned off and once a year or so I go in and make sure they haven’t added anything new for me to turn off. Now the question is, are they really not collecting my data or have I just made it so I can’t see what they have on me?
minus-squareRandelung@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoThey collected incognito session info, whose entire existence was ‘not keeping a history’, so almost 100% the latter.
minus-squareAppoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoIt just not stores the session >_> Nothing was ever fully incognito about it beyond the icon looking like a spy. Also it’s made by Google. Not much of a surprise. Now for Firefoy I would be interested.
I have all my histories turned off and once a year or so I go in and make sure they haven’t added anything new for me to turn off.
Now the question is, are they really not collecting my data or have I just made it so I can’t see what they have on me?
They collected incognito session info, whose entire existence was ‘not keeping a history’, so almost 100% the latter.
It just not stores the session >_> Nothing was ever fully incognito about it beyond the icon looking like a spy.
Also it’s made by Google. Not much of a surprise.
Now for Firefoy I would be interested.