In a recent and quite revelatory turn of events, Google has conceded a point that privacy advocates have long suspected: even when you’re browsing in ‘Incognito’ mode in Google Chrome, you’re not quite as incognito as you might think. This acknowledgment comes in the wake of a $5 billion settlement to dodge a lawsuit from 2020, shining a spotlight on the often-misunderstood realm of digital privacy.

Google Chrome has become a highly popular browser, beating Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox to take the coveted first position. The open-source application, launched in 2008, now claims about 58 percent of the market share worldwide, according to Net Marketshare. But what exactly makes Chrome such a cool browser compared…

Several years ago, Google decided it was time to add a little fun to their Chrome spyw-ahem, err, browser. So, whenever a user experienced Internet problems when trying to access a page, a message would pop up on the page saying “No internet” or “Unable to connect to the Internet”. The text would be accompanied by a little dinosaur-like icon.