Google Analytics is installed by the owner of the website; it makes a promise to them: it collects everything it can.
If Google Analytics actually ignored data from Chrome in Incognito mode, it raises some questions:
* How does it detect that, exactly?
* Is there an unfair competition aspect to it? What about other browsers, not from Google?
The most honest implementation would be to set the DNT header in incognito mode (as Firefox apparently does) and to have Analytics honor it. Does not require anything shady/anticompetitive
If incognito mode is undetectable, there’s no way for Google Analytics to distinguish between “cross-device” traffic from an incognito window vs. from a phone and a laptop. Whether or not cross-decide tracking is good or bad, it’s irrelevant to this question.
I'm pretty sure incognito is detectable right now. I'm always going to assume it is.
Huh, maybe the level of integration here is just inherently problematic and companies shouldn't try to fulfill every role in the market.
Detect that chrome didn't send the x-client-data id it sends to every google owned domain. Oh, wait, it probably still does that in incognito mode.