Incognito This Tab

Incognito This Tab is a Chrome extension that will enable privacy access in a matter of seconds. Add this ultra-lightweight add-on and keep your history and navigation private.

Privacy and technology are both very important aspects of our lives. However, when it comes to describing or defining technology, privacy-oriented is not the first thing that comes to mind. Indeed, our data is valuable and all companies, websites, services, and other online and offline entities want it. When it comes to browsers, the situation is not at all different. That is why it is important for us to value and protect our data.

For example, in Google Chrome, the private mode, or Incognito, actually means that the browser stores the cookies, cache, and the permissions from that particular session. Or else, how could you navigate back and forth between last visited pages? However, the difference between normal navigation and incognito is that the collected data gets deleted once you close that window.

Incognito This Tab is quite a nice extension. The Chrome add-on is super simplistic, easy to use, and valuable to have. This free tool is definitely a minimalist's dream. Its functioning mechanism is facile: click it, and it will open in a new incognito window whatever tab you were browsing in.

For those who mainly prefer using the keyboard, they have the Alt + O shortcut available, which will open their current tab in a new private window. Also, the extension allows for the reverse function as well: open an incognito tab in a normal Chrome window. In order to have access to this, you must allow the extension to run in incognito mode, in the settings.

To conclude, Incognito This Tab is a quick solution for your privacy needs. Although it is only available for Chrome users and does not solve the overall privacy issue we are facing at a larger scale (caused by other online entities and services), it helps improve awareness and it's a really good idea to start using it. Thinking about your privacy and committing to alternative ways to nurture it is always a good idea.