Modern browsers' private modes offer limited privacy, deleting local history and cookies but not hiding activity from ISPs or websites. While useful for shared devices, they don't provide true ...

LinkedIn has a private mode for those who did not know. It’s an interesting feature that we would love for other social networks to adopt in the future, but that probably won’t happen for a long time ...

We willingly give our most personal data so often to advertisers, Big Tech, scammers, and everyone else looking to make a dime off us. Want to take control back? Start with changing a few settings ...

Many users believe that incognito mode makes them anonymous. In fact, DNS entries, router logs, and account activity remain ...

Your browser of choice probably offers an more private mode—but how effective is it? (Michal Vavro/Unsplash/) Lorrie Cranor is a professor of Computer Science and ...

Internet Explorer’s InPrivate Browsing, Chrome’s Incognito mode, and Firefox’s and Safari’s Private mode all seek to do the same thing: Prevent other users from seeing what sites were visited by the ...

Although a private browsing mode known as "Incognito" in Google's widely used Chrome browser has been available for nearly a decade, a legal settlement involving the way it works has cast new ...

Although a private browsing mode known as “Incognito" in Google's widely used Chrome browser has been available for nearly a decade, a legal settlement involving the way it works has cast new ...

Worried about leaving tracks as you browse the Web? A privacy mode is on the agenda for Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Privacy mode is coming to Firefox soon. The latest build for testers includes early implementation of this, with a public release just around the corner. Josh ...