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IT House, Oct. 12 (Xinhua)-- although Google often advertises the "Incognito Mode" feature of its Chrome web browser, it is said that the company's own engineers think it needs to be changed. According to a report by Bloomberg, Google engineers made fun of the trackless model as early as 2018, mainly because the icon of the model does not well convey the level of privacy that the trackless model actually provides.

In a chat shared by Bloomberg, a Google engineer said the company needed to change the names of espionage icons and trackless modes used in trace-free mode because they left the wrong impression on users. The core of the problem is that ordinary consumers don't know much about technology. When they see unmarked names and icons, they may think that browsers are more protected and private than they really are.

SlashGear points out that when users use Chrome's trace-free mode, browsers do not save users' browsing history and other personal data, which is more private than normal mode. However, no trace mode has no other function, and does not hide the user's IP address, location, or other potential identification data. Its main purpose is to hide the user's activities in a small, completely local scope. Although the no trace mode does not record the user's browsing history, it still retains the bookmarks and downloads created by the user during that time.

IT House learned that the Google engineers' messages were related to a class action against Google, which claimed that even if users used trackless mode, the company would collect their data, and the company misled users into believing that their information was protected. A Google spokesman said in a statement to Bloomberg that the company has always been well aware of the exact way the "trace-free mode" works.

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