The AchieVer Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 Windows 10 Will Keep the Text You Type Private in Google Chrome Incognito Microsoft has come up with a plan to improve user privacy when running Chromium browsers, like Google Chrome, in private mode, thus resolving one of the biggest issues currently on the OS. On Windows 10, whenever you launch Google Chrome in the Incognito mode, your data is supposed to be protected by not leaving any browsing traces behind. But on the other hand, the keyboard input is still monitored by the operating system in order to provide additional functionality, like text predictions, as you type. This means your data isn’t necessarily private, so Microsoft is working to resolve it. In the future, Windows 10 will treat private browsing sessions just like SwiftKey does on Android, for example. In other words, if you launch an Incognito window and begin typing, the keyboard detects it shouldn’t track the keyboard input, thus guaranteeing full privacy.A work in progress9to5google came across a recent commit published by a Microsoft engineer, who proposes a way to resolve this setback. In just a few words, a future update will connect two different functions called “shouldDoLearning” in Google Chrome and “IS_PRIVATE” in Windows 10 to make it possible to detect whenever a private window is launched and prevent typing from being tracked for predictions. Needless to say, it’ll take some time to see this go live, but expect an early implementation to make it to Canary versions of Chrome and the new Edge at some point in the near future. On the other hand, what’s worth knowing is that this particular method would only be limited to Windows 10, as other Windows versions, like Windows 7, lack the aforementioned feature to detect private browsing sessions. It remains to be seen how and when Microsoft manages to resolve this, but for the time being, its commitment to the Chromium engine appears to be a good thing for everyone. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BimBamSmash Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 Can there not be an incognito mode for the local file browser in the operating system itself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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