How to Take Screenshots in Chrome and Firefox’s Incognito Tabs on Android
Apr 23, 2021, 10:24 am EDT
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For privacy reasons, both Chrome and Firefox don’t let you capture screenshots in incognito tabs on Android. However, both these browsers let you lift the restriction if you want. Here’s how to toggle on and off the option to take screenshots in these browsers’ private tabs.
Taking Screenshots in Incognito Tabs
An incognito tab’s purpose is to keep your browsing sessions private. If you or someone else can take a screenshot of these private tabs, your sessions are no longer private which defeats the purpose of incognito tabs.
Source: Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central
A federal judge has denied Alphabet s (Google s parent company) request to dismiss a class-action lawsuit over Google s Chrome incognito mode, citing that the company did not notify users that Google engages in the alleged data collection while the user is in private browsing mode.
Google products are secure, but that doesn t have anything to do with privacy.
There are plenty of things that may come to mind when hearing this ruling. Google never claims that incognito is private and even warns you that your web activity is still visible to any website on the internet, including ones that use Google s advertising services. But what matters right now is the opinion of an appointed federal judge.
Google Is On The Hook For Lawsuit Over Chrome’s Incognito Tracking By Tyler Lee, on 03/16/2021 03:09 PDT
Google’s Chrome Incognito mode has been largely assumed by many to mean that while using the feature, you shouldn’t be able to be tracked, right? Unfortunately, it seems that the feature wasn’t as private as one would have liked which led to a class action lawsuit being filed against the company.
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Google had initially hoped to have the case against them thrown out, but unfortunately for the company, no such luck. According to a report from Bloomberg, US District Judge Lucy Koh has since ruled that Google will need to face the lawsuit. Of course, it is possible that Google could win the lawsuit against them, but it will still be time and money spent having to defend it.