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I use incognito mode ... the last thing I want is redtube being a permanent fixture in auto-complete, most visited, or anywhere else Google decides to leverage that information locally or otherwise, especially with all the stuff Chrome syncs across computers/devices these days.

As a feature it's received tremendous publicity so I don't think it's safe to assume nobody uses or knows about it:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870346730457538...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/technology/personaltech/ho...

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/six-way...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrymagid/2013/08/11/ways-to-he...

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/americans-go-to-gre... found most people tried to hide some stuff they were doing online.



For me it's less about keeping embarrassing searches a secret and more about stopping my grandmother see it as a google search suggestion.


why stop at incognito mode? You could run an entire vm in a jail'd process. Or make a hidden user account with its own home directory (if you use a unix), etc, etc.


I will when that stuff can be done as easily as shift-command-n or right clicking a link and selecting open in incognito!


Why? Incognito mode works fine, and all this extra work gets you nothing.




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