> If you think incognito mode protects you in any way, than it's you who is naive.
> If anyone really wanted to track you, they can use your IP and see every single page you've visited. Even the size of your window is enough to track you.
> Tor is the only tool I know that you can use if you don't want to be tracked.
Sorry, it seems like you didn't read my post fully or get it. I described that incognito/private browsing mode is one layer of defense, not the only layer. I also provided examples of your device being borrowed by someone else or it being stolen. In those cases, whether you used Tor (not Torbrowser, which I explicitly excluded even in my previous comment) doesn't matter. Whatever your browser has stored on the device - including browsing history, cache, cookies - is available to them to use or sell to others.
Also, I didn't mention the government as the sole hostile entity in my comment. One's own employer may use information in your browser cache on an employer provided device to fire the person or even file a criminal lawsuit against the person. Some malicious program a person downloaded may scrape all information from your caches and send that to insurers or other "data brokers" who in turn would classify you as too high a risk to support. There are far too many possibilities here that I cannot list every single one of them.
As for those who post pictures on social media about being drunk, posting racist messages, etc., that's really bad in many ways, but such protections and more should also start with each of us individually. It's in that space that I see using icognito/private browsing mode as one more helpful layer. Tor is another layer. Encrypting one's devices' storage is another. And so on.
> If anyone really wanted to track you, they can use your IP and see every single page you've visited. Even the size of your window is enough to track you.
> Tor is the only tool I know that you can use if you don't want to be tracked.
Sorry, it seems like you didn't read my post fully or get it. I described that incognito/private browsing mode is one layer of defense, not the only layer. I also provided examples of your device being borrowed by someone else or it being stolen. In those cases, whether you used Tor (not Torbrowser, which I explicitly excluded even in my previous comment) doesn't matter. Whatever your browser has stored on the device - including browsing history, cache, cookies - is available to them to use or sell to others.
Also, I didn't mention the government as the sole hostile entity in my comment. One's own employer may use information in your browser cache on an employer provided device to fire the person or even file a criminal lawsuit against the person. Some malicious program a person downloaded may scrape all information from your caches and send that to insurers or other "data brokers" who in turn would classify you as too high a risk to support. There are far too many possibilities here that I cannot list every single one of them.
As for those who post pictures on social media about being drunk, posting racist messages, etc., that's really bad in many ways, but such protections and more should also start with each of us individually. It's in that space that I see using icognito/private browsing mode as one more helpful layer. Tor is another layer. Encrypting one's devices' storage is another. And so on.