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Yes, this will definitely happen

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  • Step 1: move data from files into a database

  • Step 2: delete files

  • Step 3: press release that we just deleted the files

  • Google, probably

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Can they even untrain an IA with a given set of Data?

“Bard, forget this ever existed”

“Sure, I’ll make a copy so I won’t forget to forget”

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Machine Unlearning is a very active field right now but basically no not really

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You laugh but it would be really dumb for this not to happen. They would be held liable and most of the data they collect doesn’t come from incognito

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Sure they will be held liable. Just like everything else they are held liable for.

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They aren’t liable for much

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you are way too optimistic my man, haha

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Of course they do, they’ve already scanned all of them and updated their respective user profiles.

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Am I the only one who never thought that incognito mode or the equivalent on FF was protecting me from anything other than anyone else who may use the same pc? I don’t share my pc with anyone so I only use those modes when I think a website is acting up because of previously stored cookies, credentials or my various script blockers.

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Incognito mode is for hiding your search history from your relatives and friends. Corpos ready have that data anyways.

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Exactly. And you can’t be surprised when a company that also runs a search engine and ad network stores that data for other purposes.

I rarely jump in on things like this because of the lack of understanding of how things actually work as well as the inevitable responses like from OP and someone else I just responded to.

To repeat for those who may not get it just yet. Private browsing on FF and incognito mode on chrome are specifically for use when you use a shared pc or someone else’s system to check your email or whatever. It’s always been designed to protect locally not from the greater web.

I don’t remember ever seeing or hearing anything from Google about this mode hiding data from them.

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And hey if you were to somehow believe otherwise, well. You’d be stupid! Haw haw

laughs in obscene money

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12 points

Private mode is for when I want to pull up some weird YouTube video where some guy silently melts copper into bars and not have it clog up my partner’s reccos

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6 points

I have something in common with that sentence but mine ends at pull

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12 points

Yeah it is more of a debugging tool then anything.

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2 points

No you are not,
take this link and share it around to others who trust them…

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I think you misread me.

I never thought that these modes were protecting me from anything except those who shared the same pc. Apparently I am the only one who understands the way the internet works and that nothing you do or any software you run on your system can stop every website and server you interact with or that passes on your data packets to the next server from logging everything it can about you.

How do people think that sites like reddit cross check and correlate data from users to find those with multiple accounts that are attempting to evade bans? There is so much data that we don’t even know we are creating.

I’m all for privacy and anonymity when and where it makes sense but it seems like people here have no idea what the difference between the two are and just how difficult it is and how much extra friction it brings to attempt to be completely anonymous and private via a system designed to connect people.

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I’m seeing a lot of people make arguments like this and I just don’t get it. Is your point that its okay for tech companies to prey on the ignorance of nontechnical users? We can’t expect everyone to know everything about every service they interact with.

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I’m the only one…

OK blocked. Come on for real.

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Because they’ve already gleaned what they wanted.

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It’s all fine, they have another set of billions of files as copies so they can safely remove the original collections.

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