In November 2025, some Reddit users were shocked to find Google apparently had access to their private browsing sessions.

Google’s Chrome Help Center explains that opening an Incognito window starts a private browsing session. Any additional Incognito windows opened afterwards belong to the same session, which ends only ...

Google Chrome can’t permanently disable history recording on its own. The best options are to use Incognito Mode, Guest Mode, or switch to Brave and enable its Clear browsing data on exit setting.

It looks like Google is testing a change to its Chrome browser’s ‘Incognito mode’ that would rename the feature ‘Private mode.’ The browsing mode lets users surf the web without saving history, ...