How to enable YouTube's incognito mode, watch videos without leaving a trace

07/10/2018 – YouTube has released a new tool to watch videos, available in the Android mobile application.

"Private Browsing Mode" works in the same way as Private Browsing Mode. Chrome, and allows us to see videos without leaving any traces, that is to say without the videos viewed are reflected in our history.

This serves, for example, to sharpen the algorithm of recommendations and not to let videos are similar to our taste just for having seen something once.

The typical situation is, for example, if we want to show a video to a child, he can see it without then we see a lot of recommendations for children's videos. 19659002] How to activate it
The option is not at first glance, but the operation is quite simple.

In the Android application, just go where our profile picture is, and press there. Then the account setup options will open, among which "Enable Incognito Mode" will appear

Just press the option to display a message explaining the operation .

"When you exit the incognito mode or are inactive, the activities you perform in this session will be erased and you will be returned to the account that was last used," says the poster. The ISP can still see the activities, "he adds.

Keep in mind that once activated, the "Private Browsing Mode" is enabled even when you close the application, so you have to turn it off at the end of what you see.