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Chrome For Android's Incognito Mode Saves Some of the Sites You Visit
An anonymous reader writes: A newly found bug in Google Chrome for Android means incognito mode really isn't as locked-down as it's designed to be. Some sites you visit while using the privacy feature are still saved, and can be retrieved simply by opening the browser's settings. Google Chrome for Android has had incognito mode since February 2012. Here is Google's official description of the feature: "If you don't want Google Chrome to save a record of what you visit and download, you can browse the web in incognito mode."
If I'm browsing incognito and click links to open in new windows, sometimes I'll look and find I seem to have lost the incognito protection. Not sure if this is by design or not, but regardless it's stupid and deceptive.
Also, incognito or not, Google is sapping your browsing habits and history. Only way to avoid this is to not use android.
Don't use Chrome or the default browser on Android you mean. Android is the best phone OS in the history of the Universe so far, literally. Android is Linux.
Firefox is still always the right choice on all platforms. I hope they never screw this up. If they do, you will have to use an older version until they unscrew it. Chrome is all-around weak unless you are on a Mac and for some reason want Chrome's built-in Flash player. Other than that, Chrome is nothing.
If you don't at least have Firefox installed on Android, you get what you get for being new. Learn it. Unless you are some big time phone web surfer it's not even an issue. For any real encryption on your phone you will have to use Orbot, etc.
Also this:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7988275&cid=50494529
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7988275&cid=50500123