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Claude’s new incognito mode is free for all users
Conversations with the AI will stay private and not be in your history or memory
The new features arrive with Claude’s newly upgraded memory system for subscribers to Claude Max, Team, and Enterprise

If you enjoy using Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot but don’t really like the idea of your conversations lingering forever in the cloud, you’re in luck. Claude can now go Incognito, meaning any interaction will be private and unsaved. You won’t see it in your history or when you open the app.

In an industry where AI privacy often comes with a monthly price tag, Anthropic’s decision speaks to how explosively popular Incognito mode is among those leery of how much personal information digital tools absorb to be used at the whim of massive tech companies.

Claude now offers this kind of ephemeral, memory-free mode to every user on every subscription tier, including the free level. Just click the little ghost icon when starting a new chat, and it’s activated. The black border and label confirm your chat is incognito. When you close the window, it’s gone. No history. No memory. No trace aside from a temporary 30-day retention period for safety.

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But here’s where it gets interesting: incognito mode and memory don’t compete. They complement each other. Use incognito when you want a clean slate, free from influence or history. Use memory when you want Claude to be a continuity machine, helping you carry long-term threads across chats and tasks.

And if you’re the kind of person who changes your mind a lot about what you want remembered, Claude’s approach is refreshingly respectful. Nothing gets saved unless you opt in. And if you don’t want memory at all? You don’t have to use it.

It also sets Claude apart from some of its biggest rivals. While OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google Gemini both offer their own versions of memory and private chats, they don’t make those distinctions quite as clear or customizable. Claude’s implementation feels unusually transparent thanks to its prominent labels and icons

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Not having the memory feature in place is both appealing and seems to negate some of the possibilities of an AI chatbot. They’re their own bubble and =can’t be converted into regular ones after the fact, so if you forget to copy something important before closing the window, it’s gone. You also can’t use incognito mode inside Claude’s “Projects” feature.

Still, the broader implication that people want to at least have the option for privacy in their AI chatbot conversations is obvious. Incognito mode lowers the barrier to entry for people who are curious about AI but wary of leaving a data trail. And, oddly enough, an AI that can also forget things or at least imitate the experience seems a lot more human than one with total recall.

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They may not officially be called Good Old Games any more, but GOG still sells plenty of games that are both old and good alongside new releases like Hollow Knight: Silksong. Speaking to Automaton, senior PR rep Piotr Gnyp emphasized that by saying, “GOG has been doing this for well over a decade, and we’re constantly reaching out to secure iconic games. Sometimes, it takes years. Diablo came to GOG after almost a decade of conversations. Preservation often means knocking on the same doors again and again, hearing ‘no’ most of the time, until one day, it’s finally a ‘yes.'”

That paid off with GOG eventually getting to re-release a handful of Japanese games that were difficult to get hold of in the west like Silent Hill 4: The Room, some of the early Metal Gears, and the OG Castlevanias and Contras. Capcom eventually agreed to let GOG re-release Dino Crisis and the first three Resident Evils, though it took “time, persistence, and trust-building,” Gnyp says. A re-release of Breath of Fire 4 earlier this year was one of the stand-outs of GOG’s preservation initiative launched in late 2024.

“Working with Japanese partners often requires demonstrating both technical capability and cultural understanding. In this case, Capcom treated these launches as full new releases, so we followed a complete QA and certification process, just like we would for a brand-new game.”

Gnyp went on to say that, while sometimes a game’s creators or an external partner is involved at this stage, “in most cases, it’s GOG handling the porting and compatibility work.” Games in the GOG Preservation Program get some extra care and attention, whether they’re packaged with fan-made mods or otherwise altered to run on modern operating systems, have controller support, and generally embrace the modern world.

“Our internal tech team analyzes each game,” Gnyp said, “builds custom wrappers or tools when needed, and thoroughly tests the result. That’s how we make sure the experience is authentic but also practical for today’s players.”

Not every game that makes it to GOG gets to be preserved forever. The first two Warcraft games were pulled by Blizzard, as were Adult Swim games like Westerado and Fist Puncher. Sometimes GOG has to remove a game from sale when it’s delisted for a rights issue and sometimes it’s because the publisher wants to sell it on their own storefront, but recently there’s been a more censorious group trying to get games removed from sale. GOG responded by giving 13 horny games away for free.

“At GOG,” Gnyp said, “as a platform devoted to Good Old Games and videogame preservation, we see it as a game preservation issue. Every year, many games are disappearing, for various reasons. Every game that disappears from distribution is potentially lost to game preservation efforts. It is particularly worrying when games are potentially vanishing due to external pressure.”

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