2020 lawsuit accused Google of tracking incognito activity, tying it to users' profiles.

Google agrees to settle Chrome incognito mode class action lawsuit::2020 lawsuit accused Google of tracking incognito activity, tying it to users’ profiles.

  • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    6 months ago

    In my opinion, this is way more terrifying and problematic than if they were listening to us.

    Exactly. This is what I try to explain to people when they bring up the listening.

    Somehow it’s difficult for many to comprehend this. They find the listening easier to understand.

    • whatwhatwhatwhat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      6 months ago

      I described it to my dad like this: “They don’t need to listen to your conversations because they’re already able to simulate your thoughts.”

      Kinda a stretch, but it worked for him.

      • vexikron@lemmy.zipEnglish
        71·
        6 months ago

        Shhh shh shh, you can’t just tell people that the vast majority of them are so predictable in so many ways that most of their life choices can be determined to reasonable degrees of accuracy such that they functionally /are/ NPCs to those with decent models and a huge training dataset.

        It’ll upset them.