HelloWorld_502

HelloWorld_502 t1_is7zmgn wrote

Reply to comment by Zopieux in Even Google's Own Staff Thinks 'Incognito Mode' Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be | Internal communications show employees joking about Incognito's abilities with one comparing it to "Guy Incognito" from The Simpsons by Hrmbee

It’s just how the tool was meant to be used. Not a hard concept.

If you want to make your life private, it takes a lot more than checking a box. That’s the hard thing to explain.

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HelloWorld_502 t1_is69ioi wrote

Reply to Even Google's Own Staff Thinks 'Incognito Mode' Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be | Internal communications show employees joking about Incognito's abilities with one comparing it to "Guy Incognito" from The Simpsons by Hrmbee

Incognito mode is a super useful tool to use a machine without creating a profile that will save passwords, cookies, history, etc. Say I sit down at my friends computer and I want to check my gmail, launch chrome in incognito mode, do my two step verification, and I'm good to go. When I close the incognito browser, everything about that session is gone. Even if you load up another incognito right after closing, 2FA must be completed again regardless of if you say to remember the browser.

It is also very useful for troubleshooting Chrome browser along with disabling extensions like: chrome --incognito --disable-extensions

If your really trying to be private on the internet, you must do a heck of a lot more than just manipulate settings in your browser.

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