Despite Google's touting of the incognito mode feature available on its Chrome web browser, the feature is allegedly something of a joke to the company's own engineers. According to a report from ...

While "incognito mode," or private browsing, prevents data from being logged on your device, it does not make your activities invisible to search engines or other third parties. (AP Photo/Seth ...

"Make Incognito Mode truly private," Twohill wrote in the email last ... That’s a pretty damning — and funny — insight into how much Google's own employees believed in the browsing mode ...

Incognito mode is seen as a privacy layer that conceals your online activity—but that’s only partially true. It comes with some limitations you should understand if you want to browse more securely.

Turn on YouTube’s incognito mode Watch your favorite YouTube creators without leaving a trace. Screenshot: YouTube. There are good reasons you might want YouTube to remember what you’re watching.

Unfortunately, Incognito Mode isn’t the useful security tool that it may appear to be. Essentially, all Incognito Mode does is keep your browser from recording your web history.

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