Google Faces $5B Lawsuit for Collecting User Information via Incognito Mode (news18.com)

This lawsuit is made to get headlines, not to be legally watertight.

Remember when Google warned the CDC of widespread flu, or cold, outbreak somewhere years ago? With far more data collection today, I'd be surprised if they couldn't warn people, residents, and potential protestors, about the potential for looting/riots. It would not only help keep people and property relatively safe, but enable the criminals to be brought to justice more easily.

Self destructing cookies need to be the default on browsers that are serious about privacy. Nobody needs to keep thousands of cookies around.

We also need a UI that allows inspection of active cookies. Firefox took this away for no good reason.

A way to get around this: https://medium.com/@jainmukesh/slow-browser-1-hack-to-speed-...