Using Incognito Mode? These 7 Entities Can Still Track You

Hot to Geek: “Incognito mode, private browsing, and other similar modes offered by web browsers are a genuinely useful feature for your privacy, but it’s not what many people think it is. All the network traffic that goes from your computer to the internet at home goes through a network router, which is in turn connected to the outside network, or WAN (Wide Area Network). That router can’t do its job unless it knows where each packet is meant to go, which means that anyone who can pull the logs from the router or monitor the LAN’s network traffic live, can see which websites a specific computer has visited and when. Do with that information what you will, but if you’re on your parents’ internet and they are mildly tech-savvy, they can figure out where you’ve been…”