[ddito]

I really don't understand why anyone would expect private browsing to be completely anonymous. I suppose they could change the name to something better but seeing as how I only use it to browse khm websites which I don't want in my browsing history and I know other people use it only for the same reason as whell. In any case I suppose that anyone who really needs anonymity is aware what browsers mean by "private browsing". I even have to block Firefoxes tracking protection to browse my favorite "website"

[neotek]

Of course you understand, you know as well as any of us that the average user knows next to nothing about how the Internet, their computer, or their browser works, either physically or conceptually.

It's not unreasonable for a user to take Google or Mozilla or whoever at their word when they call the feature "incognito mode", or "private browsing" etc. They don't know the first thing about how their privacy is breached in the first place, so why would they know how their browser mitigates potential breaches?