<story><title>Ever used Google Chrome in incognito mode? You could be entitled to up to $5k</title><url>https://bivens.plaintip.com/index.php/google-incognito/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chungy</author><text>If I was presiding over this case, I&amp;#x27;d throw it out. It&amp;#x27;s never been misleading about what it is: it doesn&amp;#x27;t save stuff to your hard disk. That says nothing about remote servers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sohcahtoa82</author><text>To the tech crowd that visits HN, it&amp;#x27;s obvious what Incognito did and didn&amp;#x27;t do.&lt;p&gt;But imagine your non-technical family members.  You know, the type that calls you up for tech support on a regular basis because &amp;quot;you know computers&amp;quot;.  Someone tells them &amp;quot;Hey, you should be using Incognito when doing adult activities&amp;quot; and then gets caught browsing adult sites on a work computer because they thought Incognito would make it invisible.&lt;p&gt;This lawsuit isn&amp;#x27;t for you and me, it&amp;#x27;s for them.&lt;p&gt;The question is, since &lt;i&gt;WE&lt;/i&gt; know what it did, is it ethical (or even legal) for us to join the class action?&lt;p&gt;Personally, even if it was legal, and even if someone convinced me it wasn&amp;#x27;t unethical, I wouldn&amp;#x27;t do it.  I don&amp;#x27;t want to risk Google being like &amp;quot;You joined a lawsuit against us, so we don&amp;#x27;t want to do business with you.  Say goodbye to your entire Google account.  This locks you out of your phone?  Too damn bad.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Ever used Google Chrome in incognito mode? You could be entitled to up to $5k</title><url>https://bivens.plaintip.com/index.php/google-incognito/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chungy</author><text>If I was presiding over this case, I&amp;#x27;d throw it out. It&amp;#x27;s never been misleading about what it is: it doesn&amp;#x27;t save stuff to your hard disk. That says nothing about remote servers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Terr_</author><text>If I recall correctly, one of the problems (unless it was a different court case) involved the incestuous corporate relationship between the browser and the sites.&lt;p&gt;Customers wre using a tool provided by Google for accessing Google services (among others) and the Google tool is promising them that their activity isn&amp;#x27;t being recorded.&lt;p&gt;It isn&amp;#x27;t unreasonable for someone to believe that the promise included &lt;i&gt;all those Google services and websites as well&lt;/i&gt;, but instead they were still being tracked and correlated etc.</text></comment>