I saw on Hacker News that a law firm leading a lawsuit against Google for purportedly misleading claims about Chrome’s “incognito mode” is looking for plaintiffs who, among other things, used Chrome’s incognito mode at any time between June 1, 2016, and December 1, 2023. While $5,000 would be nice (note I’m not following the suit so I do not know any of the particulars and am not interested in them), it couldn’t give me more satisfaction than noting that I am pretty sure I have not used Chrome on one of my computers in the June 2016-December 2023 time-frame. That’s right: I figured out Chrome was bad well before I switched to Linux in August 2020.
Tag: google
That Didn’t Happen Years Ago?
I subscribe to the AlternativeTo.net RSS feed. A new feed update appeared in my reader a couple of days ago: Google Shuts Down Adsense Accounts in Russia Impacting Youtubers and Content Creators. I have two questions. First, what is the difference between a Youtuber and content creator in the context of someone who is trying to make money posting videos on Youtube? Second, this didn’t already happen? I thought that that all of this stuff was shut downn two years ago between the big tech companies and the actions of the Russian government. Go figure. (PS: AlternativeTo’s speculation that Google’s decision was prompted by one of Russia’s myriad new foreign agent laws seems to be over the target to me.)