IN this mode the browser will not save information about the actions performed in it. We are talking about browsing history, cookies, saved passwords, download history, autofill data, hosted application data, content licenses, and other data.
Your work in the browser becomes completely private. All information about your network activity will deleted.
For those who care about protecting their personal information the regime will be especially relevant. After all, your actions online are constantly are watching and keep records of statistical data. For example, the provider takes into account incoming/outgoing traffic from the PC you are using, and search engines, based on your requests, select contextual advertising to show you. This is how the browser collects all kinds of data about you.
To make surfing the web more safe We recommend using this mode of operation. It will not protect you from data collection by the provider, search engines and visited sites, but it will allow you not to save data about user actions in the browsing log, media files will not be saved in the cache, cookies, passwords, history will be cleared immediately after the end of the session. However, when authorization on any site under your account, your actions will be noticeable; you won’t be able to become “invisible” this way.
This is a great way to hide your activities from other users of the computer you use. Each user decides when there is a need to use it.
How to enable incognito in Yandex and Chrome
In Google Chrome and a very similar browser from Yandex, the procedure for enabling incognito is identical.
In the settings, mark “ New window in incognito mode"(or the same combination of clamped " Ctrl+Shift+N»).
The following window will appear. 
Notice that in the upper left corner appeared hat icon with glasses (spy), which symbolizes incognito enabled.
You can also make a click right-click on any link on the network and select “ Open link in incognito mode». 
It should be noted that although information about your visits will not be saved in the browser, your presence on the sites you visit can be registered one way or another. For example, in a Google account. To avoid saving history when privacy is enabled, come out temporarily also from your account. This can be done by clicking on the icon settings and selecting Web search history.
Click Suspend.
Private mode in Opera
As for Opera, this mode is called Private. You can create a private tab by clicking on the menu button - Tabs and windows – Create a private tab.
Surely, many users have exactly this installed on their computer. Google browser Chrome, who has already managed to win sympathy with his lightning-fast work and quick start systems.
Also, this browser has most of the advantages compared to others, and first of all, the big advantage is the ability to be on the network completely “anonymously”. This is very convenient for those who are not a personal computer user and you are interested in protecting your personal data.
How does incognito mode work?
When working in this mode, all your data, web pages you visited, and cookies are not automatically saved on your computer. Also video files and audio files do not remain in the cache. In other words, the mode provides complete privacy on the Internet.
But only computer users cannot see all the information about your previously visited sites. Websites, outgoing and incoming traffic, all this can be seen by the administration and Internet provider after visiting their site.
How to enable incognito mode
To activate this mode, follow the steps below:
This mode will not completely protect your movement through the browser, but we will talk about this below. The fact that you are using incognito mode is indicated by the spy icon with glasses in the upper left corner of the browser. 
Files you download in incognito mode will not be saved in your browser history, but they will be in the Downloads folder on your PC. After closing the browser itself, they will still be in the registry and downloaded folder, and anyone logging into your computer will be able to view them. 
Disabling incognito mode
If you want to return to standard mode, you just need to close all browser tabs and then re-enter Chrome. 
Benefits of using incognito mode
- The mode is especially useful when you are temporarily using someone else's computer. When you urgently need to check your mail, after closing the tab in this mode, neither the password nor the login will be saved on your friend’s PC, which gives you complete security of your data.
- If you want to hide your visits to some sites from your family, then incognito mode will be your excellent assistant in this matter.
Of course, this mode is very convenient to use. But you must remember that it is impossible to navigate sites unnoticed. The mode is designed only to ensure that no unnecessary information is saved in the browser history. If you logged into a search engine under your name and were in it for a long time, then everything you searched for in it will automatically be saved in your browser and will be registered in the Google search history.
Good day everyone, my dear friends. Please tell me, when you visit website pages and don’t want anyone to find out where you climbed, what do you do? I know that most people just delete the history. But in fact, this is a rather ugly way of not showing your traces. At least to me it seems terribly inconvenient.
How can we make these actions easier? The answer is simple - incognito mode. Thanks to this, you can climb on other people's computers and not worry that your data will be saved there. It is designed so that the browser history is not saved in it, i.e. neither sites visited nor credentials. In addition, this mode can be used to enter another account, without leaving your main one. Of course, you can use a special extension, but the hidden mode will not leave any traces.
And today I’ll tell you how to enable incognito mode in Chrome to make our lives easier. Moreover, I will show you how to turn it on once, or so that it works constantly.
All we need for this is to log into the Google Chrome browser and click on settings. Then you just need to choose “New window in incognito mode”. Or you can do it even simpler, namely press the key combination SHIFT+CTRL+N.
A black window with a picture of a spy will immediately open. Hooray! We succeeded. Now you can log into your accounts on other people's computers without worrying that your login and password will be saved. In addition, nothing is saved, i.e. if you exited the browser, but did not log out of your account, this is also not saved.
I just warn you right away that extensions do not work in incognito mode by default, so they must be enabled separately. To do this, go to “Settings” - "Additional Tools"- “Extensions”. Well, when do you get into your installed extensions, you will see that under each of them there is a checkbox (square) “Allow use in incognito mode”. You can choose only those that you yourself want to see and use.
Constant use
Some people prefer to use this mode all the time, i.e. so as not to open windows in this mode every time you log in, but so that it is used by default. So, this is all real. And everything is done very quickly.
Go to shortcut properties Google Chrome(namely a shortcut!) and now in the “object” line at the very end, put a space and write this -incognito. Apply this and try to log into the browser as usual.
So how? Did everything work out? Well done. Now you can choose in what cases to turn on the hidden mode: when needed or constantly. And I'm wondering, do you use this thing or will you use it now? Share your opinion in the comments.
Best regards, Dmitry Kostin
All browsers store information related to users' online activities. To achieve this goal, a cache is used, as well as cookies. Many people are not happy with this state of affairs. There is a need to hide traces of your Internet activities. It remains to understand how to enable incognito mode in the browser and put it into practice.
In practice, achieving the above goal is very simple. Every browser has a treasured link. You have to click on it to hide. Below is how to do this depending on different browsers.
Incognito mode in Chrome
Incognito mode in Explorer (IE)
Incognito mode in Mozilla
If you want to enable incognito mode in Firefox permanently, you should:
Incognito mode in Opera
As can be seen from the examples above, the question “how to enable incognito mode in the browser?” should not cause any difficulties. It is worth remembering:
- this mode in Google Chrome disables available extensions;
- Incognito mode is not an obstacle for spyware and Internet service providers.
Privacy is what most people strive for modern internet– users. And this is not at all surprising, because many of them have to share a PC/laptop with relatives, colleagues or friends.
Google became concerned about the issue of privacy more than five years ago. It was then that an interesting feature appeared in their browser, allowing them to surf the Internet!
What is incognito mode?
Incognito mode is one of the many features built into the browser that allows users to keep their browsing history private.
In other words, this is a mode of browsing sites in which no session data remains on the device used to access the Internet. When the user turns it on, the browser automatically stops recording data downloaded by portals and browsing history, and also does not save the list of programs, pictures and other files downloaded by the user, while the files themselves and added bookmarks are saved.
“Incognito” does not hide information from the sites visited by the user and his provider!
It is worth noting that the user can be in normal and anonymous mode at the same time, and only the data of those web resources that were opened in the usual way will be saved.
How to enable incognito in Chrome
To open a new anonymous tab you need to:
- Click on the “three dots” icon located in the upper right corner of the browser.
- Click on the inscription “New window in incognito mode.”
- A new window should appear in front of you, warning you about changing the mode.
You can also switch to anonymous mode by simultaneously pressing the “Ctrl” + “Shift” + “N” keys.
How to disable incognito mode in Chrome
To exit incognito, just close the browser window and launch it again.
How to view incognito history in Chrome
Recording your browsing history in incognito mode can only be enabled using third-party extensions from the Chrome online store.
The most popular representative of such extensions is “Off The Record History”.
1. After installing the extension, you must allow its use in incognito mode on the settings page, otherwise the history will not be saved.
2. The browsing history of the current session will be saved directly in the extension and will be available by clicking on its icon in the control panel.
It is impossible to view your browsing history after the incognito window is closed.