Google settled a $5 billion lawsuit alleging its Chrome browser’s “incognito” mode–which users believe hides personal data from perusal, actually allowed the company to track users browsing habits and provided the company with data it used to target ads and other promotions, ABC News reports.
Reached Thursday, the company agrees to compensate users who put in a claim. The amount is as yet unknown, but the original plaintiffs sought between $100 and $5,000 per Chrome user since 2006 for Google planting cookies and using data collected while users were in incognito mode. Terms of the final agreement are not yet public.