Monday 10 April 2017

What Is Private Browsing

 
We all want our personal and confidential data safe from others, especially on the internet. Every website collects the data, your system admin or network admin can collect your browsing data, the ISP can check whatever you are doing on the internet and finally, your web browsers keep a tab of what you visit and what you do on the internet. The last one is easy to realise. Have you seen how the web browser can guess which website you want after you type a few letters of the URL, if you have visited the website previously using that browser? How does it do that? By keeping a record of the browsing history. You can check this history as well, the tab is given in popular browsers like Firefox or Chrome.

What is private browsing? It is when you are telling your browser to stop tracking you online. It is called Incognito Browsing in Chrome and private browsing in Firefox. When you turn this on, the browser doesn't keep any record of your online activities for this session and doesn't track you. The elements which help the websites and the browsers to keep your track, the cookies, the caches and browsing history, all are disabled in the private browsing session.

To turn on private browsing in Firefox, simply open Firefox and press Ctrl + Shift + P. Then you can close the normal Firefox and use the private windows. For Chrome, go to the menu and select, New Incognito Window and you are done.

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