What is actually private

What your browser keeps, what the assistant keeps, and what a workplace network or a managed device can see. Answered plainly.

• The address bar is the part no page disguise can changeNo web page or browser extension can redraw the address bar in any browser. It sits outside the page on purpose, so a fake site cannot borrow a real address.
• Two different records: local browser history and account chat historyBrowser history is a local list of visited pages stored on your device. Chat history is stored separately, on the assistant's own servers under your account.
• What a Chrome extension can see when you typeBrowser extensions vary in what they can access. This explains what one can see, and why Docognito, which asks only for storage, does not log keystrokes.
• How business ChatGPT accounts let admins see your promptsA ChatGPT account provisioned by an employer, such as a Team or Enterprise plan, typically gives administrators access to usage and content logs.
• What each other Chrome permission would have allowed instead of storageHistory, tabs, scripting and webRequest each grant far more than storage does. Comparing them shows exactly how narrow a storage only request actually is.
• How Chrome sync connects your work and personal browsingIf you sign into the same Google account on a work and a personal device with sync switched on, tabs, history and open pages can carry over between them.
• What closing the tab actually loses, and what it never touchesA message already sent to ChatGPT or Claude is stored instantly. An unsent draft is not, and a crash, a close or Shift and Escape lose it identically.
• What happens to unsent text typed into ChromeChrome can briefly hold unsent form text for crash recovery. This looks at how that differs from chat history, and where Docognito does and does not apply.
• What it can and cannot see when you browse over HTTPSHTTPS encrypts page content, but the domain name stays visible to network operators through DNS lookups and the TLS handshake, even on a personal account.
• How a managed Chrome profile can show it your extensionsOn a Chrome profile managed by an organisation, administrators can enable reporting that lists installed browser extensions on that profile.
• Does joining work Wi-Fi put a personal laptop under employer controlConnecting to work Wi-Fi does not by itself enrol a personal laptop in device management. Enrolment is a separate step, and guest networks log differently.
• Why a screen recording shows the real tab, not the disguiseA screen recording or screen share captures whatever is on screen, including the address bar, so a page disguise does not change what the recording sees.
• What two seconds of attention actually resolveA renamed tab and a swapped icon work on a passing glance because eyes register shape and colour before words. Here is why that holds, and where it stops.
• Why a VPN does not hide ChatGPT use from a managed deviceA VPN encrypts traffic to its own server, but on a managed device, endpoint software installed on the device itself can see what you do regardless of the VPN.
• What a company laptop can show your employer about ChatGPTA work laptop can run endpoint monitoring or data loss prevention software that logs web activity, regardless of which browser tab is open on screen.

These pages are about what is genuinely private and what is not. Where the answer is that nothing on your screen changes the outcome, they say so. Docognito only changes what a person near you sees.