Does going incognito actually do anything? Sounds like you're

It doesn't save your history or cookies so if you share the computer nobody knows you were watching porn. It doesn't really stop tracking and all that garbage, just use some add-on for that.

Nope the internet used to be capable of incognito but since this fight over net nuetrality they want to govern it. When it should have never been mentioned before and left alone.

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This.
The latest firefox actually removes some tracking in incognito, but it's not the right tool if you're worried about tracking.

The server has no way to know you're in incognito, so from that perspective its no less secure.

There's a difference between "do not track" and "incognito."

Do Not Track is a request sent to sites when you visit them. For those sites and communities which respect it, it's a way for them to know that they should stop logging information about your visit (via cookies and other means). However lots of sites don't care, and some--as you say--will even use it as a signal that you're extra worried about being tracked. Think of it like waving a white flag in war. Some parties will respect the surrender, some won't care and some will purposely use the surrender to shoot you while you're disarmed. My advice is to only use DNT if you only browse the same handful of sites every day and you know that they respect it.

Incognito, also called Private Browsing, is different. It has nothing to do with the people running the sites you visit. This is why I think you got things mixed up when you said
>something I think you don't want to see.
There is no "you." There is no other person. Incognito browsing only means that your computer will not store history, temporary files, etc. from your browsing session once you close the window(s). The browser will also not use any of your cookies or active logins during the incognito session. I guess there's some concern that if you live with someone and they saw you on the computer, the absence of internet browsing history from that time would give away your use of incognito. But there's a simple fix for this: keep a regular browser window open at the same time and visit a few normal sites.