“Going incognito doesn’t hide your browsing from your employer, your Internet service provider or the websites that you visit,” Chrome users are warned each time they open a new incognito window.
Google and Mozilla are completely upfront about this in their browsers. Your ISP, your employer, websites, search engines, governments and other third-party snoopers can still collect your data and track your IP address. It only erases your browsing history, deletes cookies when you close the browser, and removes the data you enter in online forms. It doesn’t encrypt or route your traffic via remote server the way a VPN does. Someone can still track you (use our tool to see what your IP address reveals about you). Your private browsing mode only blocks your own browser from recording your traffic and it doesn’t hide your IP.
