Google is bringing Chrome’s real-time scam protection to Incognito and Guest modes

Google is working to bring real-time Safe Browsing checks to Chrome’s Incognito and Guest modes.

The change could help catch newly discovered scam and malicious websites that locally stored threat lists might miss.

Google is designing the feature to preserve Incognito’s privacy protections, but it hasn’t confirmed a rollout date.

Chrome’s Incognito mode is great at covering your tracks on your device. But keeping your browsing activity private shouldn’t mean getting less protection from dangerous websites. That’s one area where Incognito hasn’t quite kept pace with regular Chrome browsing, and Google is now working on a fix.

A new Chromium code change, spotted by Windows Report, reveals plans to bring real-time Safe Browsing checks to Incognito and Guest modes.