“Though the plaintiffs valued the proposed settlement at $5 billion, which was the amount they originally sought in damages, Castañeda said that they are ‘receiving zero.’”
Google will delete or de-identify billions of records it collected from people who thought private browsing was private. The class covers 136 million users and pays none of them. Google calls the suit meritless and says it never tied Incognito data to anyone. The concession is five years of blocking third-party cookies by default in a mode built to block tracking in the first place.