So, how incognito are you on Chrome's Icognito Browser

[Lostlover]

Just curious? If I was to use Icognito at a friend's house, could I go to JUB without him knowing?

 

[T-Rexx]

No.

If you log into your friend's home network to access the Internet, his router will record the sites you visit.

Incognito mode only applies to the browser itself, It doesn't save where you've gone in the browser's history file. It also deletes new cookies you created during the incognito session, when you close out the session.

 

[T-Rexx]

Just thought of another thing, lostlover.

In an earlier thread, you were concerned that Google was tracking you. It remembered what searches you had performed on your iPhone even when you were on your desktop computer.

That will still happen in incognito mode! Any Google searches you perform while incognito will be saved by Google and displayed even when you are not incognito. That's because the searches are being saved outside of your browser (and even outside of your computer), on the Google website.

Again, Incognito applies only to the browser itself. Anything that happens outside of the browser (on a website, in a router, on a network) cannot be stealthed by Incognito.

 

[QBranch]

Again, Incognito applies only to the browser itself. Anything that happens outside of the browser (on a website, in a router, on a network) cannot be stealthed by Incognito.

Correct... Incognito refers to the browser itself*, I could sit with a traffic analyzer on a network and record "incognito" traffic all day long. That said, your friend's technical competence will determine whether or not he knows how to get his router to log traffic. Additionally your service provider is keeping logs of what you are doing, there's even a bill in congress that would mandate that all ISPs retain certain logs of user activity for 12 months.

*Some security researchers found that Chrome will leave behind some very minute traces of your activity on your system even when running in Incognito mode. They are extremely non-obvious and it would take considerable time and effort to find anything useful. I can't find the link to the report but if I do I'll post it.

 

[Corny]

If you log into your friend's home network to access the Internet, his router will record the sites you visit.

COULD record the sites. it will KNOW which sites you visited, but if it records them - that's a different questions. most router's won't. at least not with default settings.

 

[Lostlover]

I guess what I should have asked is if my browsing history is leaving traces on the computer?

Thanks.

 

[QBranch]

As far as 99.9% of the population is concerned you aren't leaving traces on the PC itself. But (to use the analogy), if the Feds come a-knockin', don't be surprised if they can turn something up.

 

[ShavedBare87]

As far as 99.9% of the population is concerned you aren't leaving traces on the PC itself. But (to use the analogy), if the Feds come a-knockin', don't be surprised if they can turn something up.

But what if I'm behind 7 proxies?

 

[Corny]

all 7 of them could be logging you and giving the logs to the feds

 

[QBranch]

But what if I'm behind 7 proxies?

^Corny is right. I was referring to the files that can get left behind, though upon research I don't even know if this is an issue anymore.

For total anonymity, download the Tor Browser Bundle, and install it on a flashdrive. This way, you can use a portable version of Firefox which will be routed automatically through the excellent Tor anonymity service. Because the whole thing will run on a flashdrive, you can be confident that nothing is going to get left behind...