Google Chrome’s private browsing mode, Incognito, is an effective way to hide your browsing session history if used properly. Unless you are very conscious about maintaining your privacy, you likely forget from time to time to jump into a private session. If you are browsing less than savory websites, you are less likely to forget to make the jump, but for less embarrassing locations it’s easy to have it slip your mind. Incognito is an excellent feature but it has it’s limitations – what you may want is a way to blacklist sites and to allow their viewing while only in the private session.
Autonito is a Chrome extension that facilitates a way for the user to list a series of web sites or domains that should always launch in Incognito mode. Once installed, sites can be added through the extensions Options; if you aren’t sure how to get into this area first locate the wrench icon in the upper right corner of the Chrome browser, then Tools->Extensions.
Sites are added by manually inputting the address and clicking Add; simple and straightforward once you are in the correct area. There really isn’t much more to the extension but it performs as billed which is always the most crucial aspect.
Unfortunately, one draw-back that I’d like to see addressed in future releases – there is no security or privacy surrounding your custom list of Incognito sites. If you share the system with other users it’s pretty easy to uncover the sites whose activity you wish to hide in the first place. Now, if you just want to maintain some security and privacy by not keeping records on your Paypal session then that’s probably not a huge concern to you. However, if you are hiding other questionable things then this is something you must be aware of. This problem could be mitigated in future releases by adding a password on the site listing screen, a suggestion already communicated to the author.
