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10-28-2009, 09:59 AM
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How safe is surfing using the new google chrome incognito function? I am not technically inclined, so please be plain in your answer. | ||
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10-28-2009, 10:09 AM
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 | Google chrome is designed to track your web surfing habits by default. If you enable "incognito surfing" it supposedly stops tracking and sending all your data to google. But really its kind of a joke. Google tracks all your info you search anyway if you're already logged into iGoogle... So even if your using incognito surfing and your signed into iGoogle it will still track you... Regardless "incognito surfing" if it did properly work, is probably about as secure as using firefox or IE by default. Basically completely insecure.  If you really want to anonymize your internet browsing look into setting up a Proxy... This reroutes all your traffic through an anonymous IP address anywhere in the world, making it appear to wherever your browsing that you are somewhere completely different. And to your ISP it only looks like your talking to random computers all across the world. Tor is a good one thats completely free. Downside of proxies is they're painstakingly slow. The best security this site has to offer is encryption. I reccomend browsing in encrypted mode. Simply add an "s" at the end of the "http://" in your browser window so it reads "https://www.gardenscure.com/420...."
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10-29-2009, 11:53 AM
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| Sometimes the internet can be used for other things then buying stuff and grow forums... i think buzz put it best  The incognito is more for not saving your history while you are browsing and not having to clear out your history on your main browser if you don't want to...
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