Wow. Nearly every comment here is from someone who doesn't see this as a problem. Suspicious. Manipulative much?
Incognito implies exactly that to the layman. Even with a warning about specifics. We had a sense that Google is acting in good conscious when incognito and it was the opposite, AND they have tried to hide it.
Google saved our incognito searches to our Google profiles. Period. They misrepresented a product they built and have earned these consequences.
It's not just Chrome incognito either. Google has acted shady time and time again with unfair business practices. Like YouTube, photos, mail, and drive account lockouts with no options to recover, because "we investigated our decision and we say we were correct. We're not going to tell you what you did wrong either, and you can't get your data back."
I help manage 10+ local newspaper websites, and moderation is a constant issue for us as well.
We want to provide a place for the local community to have civil discussions, but many folks are misinformed and pridefully vocal about their ignorance. We see constant racism, personal attacks, and off-topic comments.
Our approach has been to turn comments off on some stories, and even whole publications. We have human moderation and machine moderation.
A local hospital requested that we consider turning comments off on covid articles, because the commenters are littering the conversation area with false information and political attacks.
I used to think that I would love to see a censorship resistant internet experience like TOR replace our centralized systems, but I don't know now. George Carlin said it best; people are dumb. The less misinformation folks are able to access, the better our society will be.
I think folks should be able to discuss topics freely with an audience, but they need to build that audience on their own. They can use email, messengers, host a forum, etc. Online public/general forums are notoriously ineffective and a huge waste of time, unless there is a barrier to entry and repercussions for misbehavior.
Incognito implies exactly that to the layman. Even with a warning about specifics. We had a sense that Google is acting in good conscious when incognito and it was the opposite, AND they have tried to hide it.
Google saved our incognito searches to our Google profiles. Period. They misrepresented a product they built and have earned these consequences.
It's not just Chrome incognito either. Google has acted shady time and time again with unfair business practices. Like YouTube, photos, mail, and drive account lockouts with no options to recover, because "we investigated our decision and we say we were correct. We're not going to tell you what you did wrong either, and you can't get your data back."
Google needs to pay for their misbehavior.