[HN Gopher] Ever used Google Chrome in incognito mode? You could...
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Ever used Google Chrome in incognito mode? You could be entitled to
up to $5k
Author : RadixDLT
Score : 53 points
Date : 2024-08-29 21:44 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| RadixDLT wrote:
| https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Wilso...
| drbig wrote:
| Lemme preempt: this is for US citizens only? I assume so. Funny
| how that whole globalization thing is asymmetric.
| BoppreH wrote:
| Yes.
|
| > Are You Eligible?
|
| > -Used Google Incognito mode between June 1, 2016 - December
| 1, 2023
|
| > -Expected browsing activity to remain private
|
| > -Did not always consent to Google tracking
|
| > -Age 18+
|
| > -US Resident
| anigbrowl wrote:
| Resident is not the same as citizen.
| mulmen wrote:
| Globalization is a trade policy. US courts still only have
| jurisdiction in the US.
| wmf wrote:
| Laws are local. You're welcome to file a lawsuit in your
| country.
| chungy wrote:
| If I was presiding over this case, I'd throw it out. It's never
| been misleading about what it is: it doesn't save stuff to your
| hard disk. That says nothing about remote servers.
| conductr wrote:
| Yes I tend to agree although the word "incognito" conveys
| something that it is not, so one could argue the very premise
| of it is misleading
| chungy wrote:
| I suppose if you don't read. If you open an incognito tab you
| are greeted with this text:
|
| "You've gone Incognito Others who use this device won't see
| your activity, so you can browse more privately. This won't
| change how data is collected by websites you visit and the
| services they use, including Google. Downloads, bookmarks and
| reading list items will be saved. Learn more"
| conductr wrote:
| That's why I tend to agree. IANAL and while this seems
| pretty simple for me to understand, I'm not certain that
| laypeople wouldn't also expect full anonymity based on some
| other aspect of the service and I'm not sure if this has
| been stated so succinctly since back in 2016. I think
| there's an argument to be made and if so, the case
| shouldn't been just tossed out without allowing them to
| make it
| autoexec wrote:
| > If you open an incognito tab you are greeted with this
| text: "You've gone Incognito Others who use this device
| won't see your activity, so you can browse more privately.
| This won't change how data is collected by websites you
| visit and the services they use, including Google.
| Downloads, bookmarks and reading list items will be saved.
| Learn more"
|
| They edited that because of the lawsuit.
|
| Before the lawsuit what it said was:
|
| "Now you can browse privately, and other people who use
| this device won't see your activity. However, downloads,
| bookmarks and reading list items will be saved. Learn more"
|
| I think it's understandable that someone would take "you
| can browse privately" to mean "We aren't tracking what you
| do"
| silisili wrote:
| Agreed. Not a legal scholar so don't know how much that
| matters, if at all.
|
| Though I was still disappointed to find out it was being
| used. I use incognito quite often to search for something I
| think may be questionable. No I don't need it super secret
| locked from the police, but it's not something I necessarily
| want tied to my identity/interests/Google account in any
| form.
| inetknght wrote:
| > _It 's never been misleading about what it is_
|
| I would argue "incognito" is misleading when you're not
| actually incognito to the servers. You're still tracked by many
| numerous data points that defeat the concept of being
| incognito.
| KeplerBoy wrote:
| Doesn't the incognito splash screen say exactly that?
|
| As far as I recall it was always pretty clear about not doing
| anything apart from not saving your browser history.
| TacticalCoder wrote:
| I always thought of the incognito mode as: _" I can surf from
| incognito mode while on a friend's computer and my friend
| won't get my credentials / history / etc."_
| peppertree wrote:
| "full self driving" vibes.
| sltkr wrote:
| It's hilarious that the sketchy lawyers behind this site demand
| to know the "[..] details on the nature of your searches,
| websites visited and or purchases made [in Incognito mode]".
| dsizzle wrote:
| Similar energy lol: https://theonion.com/ob-gyn-assures-woman-
| he-respects-doctor...
| 2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote:
| I watched hella porn
| djbusby wrote:
| Torrents of copyrighted material.
| wmf wrote:
| In theory you should only get paid if you were actually harmed.
| For example, I didn't apply for the Sony PS3 Linux class action
| because I never installed Linux so I never lost anything when
| they took Linux away. Getting back to this case, I suspect
| virtually no one can list specific harms due to incognito mode
| being slightly less incognito than they thought.
| autoexec wrote:
| > I didn't apply for the Sony PS3 Linux class action because
| I never installed Linux so I never lost anything when they
| took Linux away.
|
| I'd argue that you lost the ability to install linux on your
| device. You may have never made the choice to install it, but
| the option was yours, Sony advertised that it was an option
| you'd have if you gave them your money and then they took
| that from you after they got your cash.
|
| That said, I would agree that the people most harmed should
| be the most compensated.
| ronald_petty wrote:
| Are we talking about Chrome incognito mode? What is Google's
| Incognito "private browsing" per the website. Details matter.
| joatmon-snoo wrote:
| Yep, it's Chrome's incognito mode. The lawsuit describes it as
| "private browsing".
| laweijfmvo wrote:
| Nah, you'll probably get $3.84 and the law firm handling it will
| get several hundred million.
| tedunangst wrote:
| What's the "down to" amount?
| BlindEyeHalo wrote:
| $0 because this case has not yet gone to court.
| skobes wrote:
| In case it isn't clear, this case hasn't reached any settlement.
| A complaint has been filed, but any entitlements of class members
| are entirely hypothetical at this stage.
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