• Big P
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    1 year ago

    So what exactly are they alleged to have tracked from incognito users? The article mentions search history, which of course they’re going to continue to track because Google the search engine is not the same as Google Chrome the browser and the search engine has no business knowing or caring if you’re in incognito mode or not

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      1 year ago

      Chrome sends the text, progressively, as you type it into the address/search bar, so it can auto-complete results. This is what I believe they were referring to. Even if you don’t use Google as the search engine, it still sends those characters to Google.

      If you set up ZAP/ Burp/ etc you can watch the requests go out in realtime.

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        1 year ago

        Oh right, I suppose they could’ve not done that that’s true