What is Incognito Mode | How secure is Incognito Mode

Incognito mode

The Incognito mode is your browser's private mode that promises to keep your activity secret from anyone else who uses your computer/phone

What exactly Incognito Mode does?

Incognito Mode works by keeping your history, the browser cache, Cookies and form data that you enter only temporarily. The Idea is that, once you are done with your session and you close the browser, all this information gets deleted, making it invisible to the next person who uses the browser. Incognito Mode keeps the bookmarks you made and the downloaded files during the private session.

Incognito Mode Problems

• There isn't any problem with the Incognito Mode, the problem is people think that no one can track them and they are fully secure. People believe no one can know what site they visited once they have closed the browser. No my friend, your activity is only hidden to those who uses your device. Ever read the warning when you open up Incognito Mode. See this:
  
• Yes! You’re Employer or your Internet Service Provider might still be able to keep eye on your online activity. Wondering how do they do that? It’s because Incognito Mode only affects what's being stored locally on your computer. All your traffic (Internet activity) is still going through the same servers through your ISP and also perhaps your school or office.
• And Incognito Mode also does not delete all the data that you generated during your undercover session securely. The data can still be found by the software recovery tools or your PC’s DNS cache which can gives the information of URLs to IP-Addresses you visited. So if you are really worried about your Privacy consider clearing your DNS Cache by running the command ipconfig/flushdns.
• One more way your browsing information still be available in your PC is an unexpected error, such as Computer Crash, because many browsers only deletes data when you close you session.
• And of course any kind of Malware can access Incognito browsing if your devices is infected.

Remember : Just because a browser deletes the information after the session doesn’t mean it will keep a determined snoop from finding out what you have looking for. Example: Features that can run in incognito mode such as Adobe Flash (Though adobe flash is now discontinued) and browser extension can still leaves traces of your activity on your computer that can be used later to find out your activity. Unless you make sure that those are disabled as well in the Incognito Mode.
[Read why Adobe flash was discontinued]

But what if you really want to browse anonymously?

Solution: In order to truly conceal your identity, the solution to consider using VPN and a network like TOR.
[Link learn more about VPN] [Link learn more about TOR]

Why and when to use Incognito Mode?

• Using Incognito Mode is useful when you want to keep your browser habits invisible from prying eyes.
• Also for getting around website features that might make using them irritating because it doesn’t use cookies from your main browsing session like shopping website such as Amazon.
• You can use Incognito Mode to log into a website under a different account.
• Stop advertisers from snooping on what you are interested in.
• And even get around website pay walls that track your activity like how many articles/pages you visited before they starts to charge you or force you to download their app or ask for a sign up. (E.g.: Pinterest, Quora and Many News websites)
  

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• Storage Problem with Low end PC’s. When you have a Low end PC’s with storage issue that gets filled up with browsing cache and cookies and you don’t want to clear them again and again.