Improper or corrupt settings: Sometimes the issue might simply be caused by a corrupt setting or file. So, if you recently installed a new extension or you have a lot of extensions installed on your Brower then one of those extensions might be causing the issue. Extensions: Extensions are known to causes issue and interfere with the proper functioning of a browser. There are also typically other measures that are directed against tracking by web sites exclusively, that are enforced in private browsing mode.Īnd finally there is all the tracking by sites that happens without using the tracking storage itself, such as through fingerprinting or the IP address wiping storage at the end of the session won’t help with that, unless using Tor Browser. With the caveat above that during the session itself, tracking storage is not disabled. However it is also useful to partly limit web tracking (I would not call this “third party” as the author writes because this obviously also includes first party ie the browsed site) in addition to protecting from other local users, by wiping tracking storage at the end of the session. Or the cookies being stored in memory instead of on disk, which may address yet other privacy issues due to local attacks. (well as discussed above it’s also accessible to browser companies while it shouldn’t be, and additionally for anti-user purposes, but that’s another issue). “When you browse privately, other people who use the device won’t see your history.”Ī typical example being the browsing history wipe, while such history is not accessible to web sites anyway, but could be to other local users. What’s often misunderstood is rather that a lot of this mode aims at protecting from other users of the same computer, being a sort of “porn mode” for example. I don’t think that the most common misconception about private browsing is that it would act like an antivirus and block attacks that target vulnerabilities. Your ISP (Internet Service Provider) can track your browsing history and block local websites according to your geography.” You should know that you can still be tracked and attacked by third parties. “One misconception people have is their data is kept private when using incognito mode. This “loophole” is being heavily abused by surveillance capitalists in many other ways currently. In private browsing modes a bit like in Tor Browser it seems that there is an underlying philosophy that it doesn’t matter that you every tiniest action is being scrutinized, analyzed, and used back against you by evil actors as long as there isn’t your real life name attached to the process. #Google chrome incognito update
In fact some update went further and totally removed the ability to block cookies and other tracking storage in the UI, while it’s still possible in Firefox in private browsing.
Personally I do not use it because it’s not private enough for this reason, giving up control on cookies I use normal mode with privacy tweaks.Ī consequence is that browsers like Tor Browser that use mandatory permanent private browsing mode suffer from the same problem. The ability to limit, clean, auto-clean tracking storage, for instance with extensions, may also be limited in this mode. In fact, if it works like in Firefox, the tracking storage is even hidden to the user in the UI during private browsing but still here, creating the illusion that it is actually disabled, and even technical users often fall for this. “Cookies and site data are remembered while you’re browsing, but deleted when you exit Incognito mode.” Firefox has the same issue, and both by design. You are still being tracked by web sites (by local storage, cookies…) during your private browsing session, it just ends at the end of the session by a wiping of the tracking storage. “This mode disables local storage of site data, cookies, and browsing history.”
Because while most of the browsers (Chrome and Firefox for instance) misuse browsing history by exploiting it commercially for things like personalized advertising, so the more is kept the better for them, Chrome excels at it by uploading it unencrypted to Google servers often without the user even knowing. Well even if that comment was restricted to browsing history only, not only it’s not Chrome specific but rather universal among browsers, but Chrome would instead be specific in making keeping history the worst possible feature among browsers. “One of the best things about using Google Chrome is it keeps track of your browsing history.”Ĭonsidering the article topic I assume you mean browsing history in a broader sense, including things like tracking storage.
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