NEW YORK (AP) — Although a private browsing mode known as “Incognito” in Google’s widely used Chrome browser has been available for nearly a decade, a legal settlement involving the way it ...

Modern Internet browsers have private or incognito modes that let you surf ... In fact, private browsing functionality is probably the most misunderstood feature of web browsing.

“Veil attempts to provide a private browsing mode without relying on browsers,” says Taesoo Kim, an assistant professor of computer science at Georgia Tech, who was not involved in the research.

Despite Google's touting of the incognito mode feature available on its Chrome web browser, the feature is allegedly something of a joke to the company's own engineers. According to Bloomberg ...