This lawsuit is literally "I think incognito mode should specifically stop Google Analytics, a website feature, from tracking me" even though the first thing you see when you open an incognito window is that "this doesn't stop websites from tracking you."
What do they want Google to do, lean in further towards monopolistic abuse and give Chrome Incognito special treatment when its users are on a site using Google Analytics?
This has nothing to do with the fact that you can theoretically track users in Incognito mode. You could be using Firefox Privacy mode, and the problem would be exactly the same. It's that Google's services are tracking users who are clearly indicating they don't want to be tracked. If Google built their whole company around relying on bad faith encounters with their customers, and it's going to be painful for them to unwind, then boo-fucking-hoo. Do dumb shit, get dumb rewards.
> To prevent information from being shared with Google, Google recommends that its consumers need only launch a browser such as Google Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Edge, or Firefox in “private browsing mode. Both statements are untrue. ”
This type of comment is prevalent in this thread because neither this article nor the original article makes this distinction or goes into depth about what the lawsuit really targets. The average HN user doesn't have a pacer account or the patience to go searching through pacer, so we can only rely on news sites to provide good information (especially when they don't even upload the complaint to document cloud).
complaint: https://i.judge.sh/specific/Sia/520-cv-03664-LHK-1-main.pdf