In November 2025, some Reddit users were shocked to find Google apparently had access to their private browsing sessions.

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Modern browsers' private modes offer limited privacy, deleting local history and cookies but not hiding activity from ISPs or ...

If you want to enable extensions in incognito mode on your browser, go to the Extension settings page, find the extension you want, and toggle the option that says “Allow it incognito or in Private ...

If you browse the web in Incognito mode, everything you do is private, right? In a word, no. Your internet service provider, for example, can still see your activity. This misconception has even ...

Android has, or is soon to get, an incognito mode for the YouTube app, which will stop watched videos from showing up in your YouTube history. Google will still know exactly what you watch, of course.

In June 2020, Google found itself embroiled in a lawsuit alleging that the tech giant was illegally tracking Chrome users' internet activity, even when they had switched to the browser's "Incognito" ...

Although a private browsing mode known as "Incognito" in Google's widely used Chrome browser has been available for nearly a decade, a legal settlement involving the way it works has cast new ...

Google Chrome can’t permanently disable history recording on its own. The best options are to use Incognito Mode, Guest Mode, or switch to Brave and enable its Clear browsing data on exit setting.

Google has settled to conclude a four-year case involving how it was using data of Chrome users in incognito mode. The settlement comes after Google users alleged that the company was collecting data ...