What is Incognito?
What Incognito Mode Actually Does and Why Most People Get It Wrong
People confuse private browsing modes. People think it prevents you from being tracked, it hides activity, and makes browsing anonymous. That’s not true. Incognito mode actually does not do much at all. It does not delete activity. It just stores activity locally as little as possible.
An incognito window will create a new session. That new session allows you to not have your browsing history, search history, previously entered form data, and cookies from an incognito window saved when you close it. Therefore, no one who uses that device can see what you have done during that session. They can’t see that you have been in that session.
The purpose of incognito mode is to maintain a person’s local privacy.
Just because someone uses incognito mode does not mean that people can’t see a person’s data. An internet service provider can see what times a person’s device connects to a website. An IP address of a user will be logged, and any browsing activity will be tracked. Activity on a site will be tracked to a user’s account if that user is logged in, no matter what browsing mode is being used.
If you are using a work, school or public network, the administrators will still be able to survey the network's transmitted data, even if you are using incognito mode.
