Is Incognito Browsing as Safe and Private as You Think?

The Internet and social networks are growing, bringing with them the risk of users' personal data being stolen illegally.

To meet that need, many web browsers have added anonymous web surfing features for users, or software that supports anonymity on the Internet.

Incognito mode essentially does not save browsing history, nor does it leave cookies on your computer.

If anyone has knowledge about computers, they know that when browsing the web in normal mode, this data will be on the computer and have a certain folder to contain it.

The purpose of this is to help you surf the web faster and more conveniently. Not saving browsing data on the computer will minimize the spyware that is secretly collecting data that users accidentally get caught.

Is Incognito Browsing Really Safe?

In fact, incognito browsing simply does not store data on your computer. However, this does not mean that it will not be collected by third parties such as your network operator, advertisers or even the web browser you are using.

Basically, as you browse the web, these groups can see your browsing data:

Network

The network operator can completely track how the IP you are using has browsed the web, and even what you have done on it.

In fact, Vietnamese network operators often block foreign websites so that users cannot access them. Therefore, it is completely possible to know all the information you use on the Internet.

Plugins (extensions) installed on the browser

As you can see, incognito only prevents data from being stored on the computer, while the Plugins themselves mostly run through the online system. Therefore, it can still access user data when browsing the web.

Software installed on the machine

When accessing the Internet, users may encounter cases where the computer suddenly slows down, or web surfing slows down significantly, or even strange advertisements appear.

Be careful in these cases and install anti-virus software right now. Because your computer is most likely infected with malicious adware and it is using your Internet connection.

How to be completely anonymous on the Internet?

Being completely anonymous when accessing the Internet is almost impossible. To limit information disclosure, in theory, we should limit installing unsafe extensions, installing software of unknown origin, and cracked software/applications.

However, this is only a temporary solution to avoid your information being exploited for bad purposes. Therefore, what you should do is not to access an unfamiliar website to partially avoid the risk of data leakage.

THANH TUNG (Synthesis)

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