Why oh why won’t you listen to me? I keep preaching the gospel but you keep ignoring me. It’s not the end times, exactly, but there is an important point to be made. That point is: STOP USING GOOGLE CHROME OR ANY OTHER GOOGLE PRODUCT. Google is not your friend. Their sole purpose is to exploit you and capture as much data about you as possible in service of their advertising empire.
This latest tirade is prompted by this and this article that discuss Google Chrome’s incognito mode. The problem is that Chrome’s incognito mode is not very incognito. Don’t take my word for it, read the article and see what Google’s engineers say about it. The discovery from a lawsuit reveals emails from Google’s engineers making jokes about how insecure the mode is and saying that it should be compared to Guy Igcognito from the Simpsons. Again, this is not outside critics saying this, it’s Google own engineers. Go ahead. Read it and see what Google’s own people think about Chrome.
I don’t use Chrome so I can’t speak authoritatively about it but from everything I’ve read, it’s a pretty good browser except for the fact that it vacuums up everything you do and reports it to Google. Stop enabling this sort of psychopathy; use a browser that at least pretends to respect your privacy. If you’re on macOS, Safari isn’t a bad choice. If you’re on Linux or (shudder) Windows, consider Firefox. Firefox really has made strides in protecting their users’ privacy. There are plenty of others too, but I don’t really know much about them so I can’t make any intelligent comments about them.
One thing for sure: you need stop using Chrome. It doesn’t bring anything other than spyware to the table that you can’t get elsewhere.