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Tell HN: They say for privacy go Incognito

1 pointsby bprasannaabout 8 years ago
But, in reality when we go incognito mode in Google Chrome the Extensions like adblockplus or ghostery won&#x27;t work until we ask Chrome to allow extensions to run in Incognito mode! (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;productforums.google.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;#!topic&#x2F;chrome&#x2F;IPvVxmFJSnQ).<p>For this, Google has taken an approach of disable everything by default until someone is concerned enough to enable it.<p>Google has reverse strategy in case of user&#x27;s privacy. Enable everything(tracking etc.,) by default, until user is concerned enough to disable it.<p>For example, the incident with Chromebook (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;googles-student-tracking-isnt-limited-chrome-sync), for which Google responded: &quot;If they choose to, educators, students and administrators can disable Chrome Sync or choose what information to sync in settings whenever they choose.&quot;(http:&#x2F;&#x2F;googleforeducation.blogspot.in&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-facts-about-student-data-privacy-in.html).<p>But they missed to address the driving force behind the concern &quot;Why enable tracking by default on students?&quot;. Doing justice for people&#x27;s privacy and advertisers money shouldn&#x27;t be an hard to crack algorithm for a company like Google.<p>Note: Mozilla Firefox doesn&#x27;t stop extensions in Incognito, which means same experience as in normal mode without tracking.

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