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$5 billion Google lawsuit over ‘incognito mode’ tracking moves a step closer to trial (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most browsers even tell the users that, very clearly. I hate Google with a burning passion, but this lawsuit is just dumb.

[–] jeansburger@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

To be fair most of the class action lawsuits these days are "dumb." It's important to still fight these or else nothing will change. It's a check valve on businesses and the government to prevent them from being completely unaccountable and harming entire populations of people.

They named the feature incorrectly, then they only updated the language and explained it properly after people got in trouble or hurt because they thought it meant something different. That to me sounds like malice or at least negligence to me.

Yes the suit sounds dumb initially. However if you think about how the average person might have been misled this does sound like Google needs to be held accountable.