Incognito is not very Incognito

Hi There!!!

So Today's post is about a habit of all of us, which is Surfing through incognito mode 🙊🙊🙊

Almost all of us use incognito mode to search for some stuff that we don't wanna keep recorded in history😉

But Porn isn't the only reason you may wanna cover yourself up when searching for information. Perhaps you wanna get information about a medical condition, and you don't want it to pop up later on the family PC. Maybe you're shopping for a surprise gift and you don't want anyone to find out what you are up to. When it comes to booking tickets online you may find rather cheap prices when comparing to normal browsers because when you're browsing through normal search engines they track your interests and remember what you’ve searched for, and they try to manipulate prices based on your interests. So, using incognito mode is safe during these kinds of activities. 

When using Incognito mode, your browser history won't be saving, and when the Incognito window is closed, all the cookies that have been created during that session will also get deleted. 

But have you ever thought whether this incognito mode is actually safe, that it makes you invisible in cyberspace??????? 🤔🤔

Actually, the answer is NO 😔. Will see how it works. ✌

So, as we all know in normal web browsers, it stores browsing history, cookies and it also saves your download history, searches entered into the address bar, passwords, and pieces of web pages so they will load faster in the future (cache)

Then there is something called Super Cookies. Some websites use this to track you down.

Super Cookie 

A supercookie is a type of browser cookie that is designed to be permanently stored on a user’s computer. Supercookies are generally more difficult for users to detect and remove from their devices because they cannot be deleted in the same fashion as regular cookies. 

[https://www.techopedia.com/definition/27310/super-cookie]

Porn websites use these Super cookies to keep track of you down. When you return to a particular website that you visited before they can get the user's entire history between two visits. 

Try login into your email by an incognito tab. You can see data like your username and password are filled up despite the Incognito mode.

Incognito mode does not hide your IP address, so information such as your location, your browser, your operating system, and even your physical address might still be seen by the public and even your ISP (Internet Service Provider) can track you down and monitor all your activities, and if you are using devices from your workplace certainly your employer is capable of tracking you down. As an example, Facebooking at work in incognito mode when you’re not supposed to be on Facebook isn’t hiding your activity. Your employer can still log you. So Sad! 👦

So, if you want actual security, the recommended method is using TOR Browser or a VPN. Also, you can encrypt data to be sure what goes through your VPN or Tor is secured. 

Download tor browser from here ->  https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en

References

https://www.hotspotshield.com/resources/can-ip-addresses-be-tracked-in-incognito-mode
https://secureswissdata.com/incognito-mode-safe/


Since I'm still an undergraduate who's learning stuff please do let me know if there are any mistakes I've made in my post. 😁😁