I was always curious why is it called Incognito or Private mode? Temporary or Guest session would make more sense: “You’ve entered a Temporary session. Your browsing history and cookies will not be saved.”
Guest sessions already exist in the profile menu and is a separate feature. Guest doesn’t save history/cookies/etc locally but also doesn’t use your existing history, extensions, bookmarks, settings, etc. It’s intended more for an actual guest user to sign into temporarily.
I was always curious why is it called Incognito or Private mode? Temporary or Guest session would make more sense: “You’ve entered a Temporary session. Your browsing history and cookies will not be saved.”
Guest sessions already exist in the profile menu and is a separate feature. Guest doesn’t save history/cookies/etc locally but also doesn’t use your existing history, extensions, bookmarks, settings, etc. It’s intended more for an actual guest user to sign into temporarily.
I don’t believe it was ever called ‘private mode’, or am I wrong on this?
Private Browsing, for browsing private parts.
Private Mode is on Firefox.
Safari and Brave also both call it a private window
Internet Explorer also called it “InPrivate”.
And Edge still does.
private browsing term appears in desktop and Android. Apple also uses the term.
On Firefox it’s called Private mode, on Edge it’s called InPrivate mode.