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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?
It also doesn’t preserve cookies after closing the window. I’m also curious what people expect that mode to do.
Well, full incognito I guess, no trace for you, you can surf even the deep web... That for the less technical folks ofc.
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.
There's money to be made with more people on the Internet, and especially dumb people. So that's where it's going.
Have you seen when people cry when Netflix removes beloved content for them?
Pathetic.
I don't understand paying for streaming media at all... but I'm from the before times.
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.
Yep, I never switched from torrents as I never found anything more convenient.
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.
Do they literally have anything else?
Every time I've read the disclaimer it has been very clear and accurate, but don't let me cloud the issue with facts.
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.