What does incognito mode do, exactly?

• -History: pages you open are not written to your browsing history.
• -Cookies and site data: created in a temporary container, discarded on close.
• -Form and search-bar entries: not saved for autofill.
• -Sessions: you start signed out of everything, which is why it doubles as a second account window.

• -Your IP address, which every site and script receives.
• -Search engine logs, which record the query text and timestamp.
• -Network visibility - your provider, employer or school still sees destinations.
• -Browser fingerprinting, which works normally inside the session.
• -Downloads and bookmarks, which persist after the window closes.
• -DNS lookups, unless you separately use encrypted DNS.

Two of those get the most questions: whether incognito hides your IP and whether the WiFi owner can see incognito history.

• -Shared or borrowed computers, where local history is the real risk.
• -Signing into a second account without logging out of the first.
• -Checking how a page looks to a signed-out visitor.
• -Buying a gift on a household machine.

Cover the two gaps that matter: mask the origin with a tunnel, and stop the query record existing at all. See VPN vs incognito mode for the first, and searching without being tracked for the second. DeepIncognito handles the search half: no query logs, no local storage, instant erase, auto-destruct on inactivity.