Use "Incognito" mode? Google employees are laughing at you

Google employees cracked jokes about the Chrome browser’s “Incognito Mode” and criticized the company for not living up to its users’ expectations for privacy, according to a series of internal communications unearthed in court.

In one 2018 chat, a Google engineer proposed changing Incognito mode’s icon to “Guy Incognito,” a character from the Simpsons known for looking identical to protagonist Homer Simpson except for a mustache, according to court documents reported by Bloomberg.

The character’s lazy disguise “accurately conveys the level of privacy [Incognito Mode] provides” in comparison to Chrome’s standard browsing mode, the employee said.

(via Off the Press)