Incognito doesn't meaningfully help you with data privacy issues, I hope we all know that by now. If you're worried about that you should be focused using privacy respecting services to begin with.
But like how VPNs don't make you disappear from the internet but are useful for avoiding geoblocking, so too can Incognito still be useful.
Incognito is a different model of the browser, one which remembers nothing by default. You can make your regular browser behave like this of course, bur that's not useful to most people. You probably don't want to do a dozen 2fa checks on the same device every single day just to avoid tracking cookies when there's simpler fine grained solutions.
Logging in to an account temporarily?
Use incognito and you can't forget to logout.
I have a series of three accounts I have use only when testing something, that also conflict with my main logins. I could make a secondary browser profile, but the logins would expire by the time I needed it again. Easier to just pop open an incognito window and call it a day.
Need to look up something random but don't want to clutter your browser history?
Search it in Incognito, close it when you're done.
Browsers have the option to only wipe the last 15 minutes of history, but I don't want to check exactly when I started, I want to be done. Incognito does that.
Extensions breaking a website?
Open it in Incognito. You can use user profiles for this, especially if you need your extensions in incognito. However, for my use case that's overkill.
Incognito is built in everywhere from keyboard shortcuts to context menu options. It's scratch paper for your browser.
Make a mess and throw it away.
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Nightly Notes
I've been rushing the last few days and I miss having time to properly edit. It's satisfying in a different way from drafting.
This came out surprisingly well for the circumstances.
Still, I chose this schedule, I had an idea of what it would entail.
Time will return eventually.
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