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So do you feel the naming was inherently misleading which led you astray? Because incognito mode absolutely kept things 'sneaky' in terms of hiding the things I look up from other people who use the same computer. Which is specifically what Google said it would do and showed examples of in TV commercials. And it definitely did (and still does) that.
I'm also struggling to understand what you feel you 'trusted' Google on exactly. What did they tell you that you believed but, as it turns out, was not true?
To be clear, I was aware of the risk thanks to previous reports and my work in the cybersecurity space. I'm talking about the average user.
The name is deceptive, and explicitly calling out a list of parties that may see your traffic without naming themselves is deceptive.
It's akin to a guard saying beware doors 1 and 3 - there are dragons behind them. If you hear this from an authority that would know, you'd probably assume there's not a dragon behind door 2, or they would have said so.
The perception of "the man on the street" is a common legal standard that I'd argue Google has fallen short of here.
Aww man I thought I found one! Guess I'm back down to zero people.
No thoughts on the perception they seem to be crafting very deliberately?