Talk:Private browsing

IE 8
Should this redirect really go to Internet Explorer when Safari (and now Google Chrome) already have this feature? Idiotwithastick (talk) 03:03, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
 * The relevant questions are: Has the precise term "porn mode" been mentioned in reliable sources as often in relation to Chrome and/or Safari as in relation to IE8? And: Is there a potentially more directly applicable article about "porn mode" in general? Currently, the answers to both questions are no, so the redirect should be to IE8 for now. But that may change in the future. If for example the term comes into more general usage, it may become appropriate to have an article about that concept, either here or at another title. Or we may turn it into a disambiguation page linking to those programs who have explicitly been mentioned in reliable sources as having a "porn mode". user:Everyme 05:43, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

✅ Done Remodeled into a dab. Everyme 13:59, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Although it's beginning to look more like a stub as of now. Everyme 03:21, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Opera
Has Opera got this yet? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.155.255.143 (talk) 18:55, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
 * no (opera 9.63; at this moment opera 10 alpha also)  mabdul 0=* 17:48, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Images
Can anybody make screenshots of porn mode turned on in the differen browsers? (ie has a note in the adressbar and chrome besides the tab)?  mabdul 0=* 10:12, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Misleading Discription of Privacy Mode
The article states that privacy mode "allows a person to browse the Internet without storing data that could be retrieved at a later date to incriminate that person."

This is misleading as it implies that Priacy mode may be used to allow Internet browsing that cannot be tracked to a specific computer. Privacy mode does not shield a computer's IP address from a website, and that is the usual way in which someone's Internet-browsing activities are tracked and verified by law enforcement agencies.

Perhaps it would be more accurate to simply say that privacy mode "allows a person to browse the Internet without one's browser storing browsing history, cookies, user credentials, or caching temporary Internet files."

Also, it should be stated that the same thing can be achieved on a browser without privacy mode by frequently deleting one's history, cookies, form data, passwords, and temporary Internet files. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.230.134.92 (talk) 05:34, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

As noted by 71.230.134.92, this mode provides privacy only from other users of the same computer browser instance. It provides zero privacy from any remote sites, and absolutely nothing against browser fingerprinting. Ref. https://panopticlick.eff.org/ Jerrod Day (talk) 14:54, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Porn Mode?
Wondering if this alternate naming should this be included right at the start of the article, or moved down. Although it seems like there are references for this, it seems almost like just a humourous attention grabbing headline rather than encyclopaedic. Ps. also not meaning to be a prude on this, haha phocks (talk) 04:33, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

request clarification
With regard to where the article says: “However, privacy modes operate as shields, since browsers typically do not remove all data from the cache after the session. Plugins, like Adobe Flash, are able to set cookies that will not be removed after the session. Adobe has since published a document explaining how to disable and remove the data ”:

does private browsing suppress the storage of data (such as cookies) by plug-ins (such as Adobe Flash)? 72.83.90.114 (talk) 19:24, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Privacy mode or Private browsing?
Why is the name of this page still Privacy mode, when the majority of browsers listed call it Private browsing. Only one and not even the first one to introduce the function, calls it by the name this page has. Even when searching WP for Private browsing one gets redirected (OK that in itself is correct) to this page. JanEnEm (talk) 08:45, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

"Latest stable"
That table column in the "Supported browsers" section seems irrelevant here. How about a "since" date or version number instead ? --Jerome Potts (talk) 17:49, 6 April 2011 (UTC)


 * The latest stable is for showing the progress a browser made (by version number/release date) and or if it is discontinued. (at least by feeling for example with internet explorer a few years ago...) mabdul 06:20, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

I lost it at 'Porn Mode'
All I can say is Lol. Give the guy who wrote that part a medal. -B1KWikis (talk) 21:48, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Removed uninformative/spammy link
I removed the last link in the article, because the linked page didn't add anything of value. (Their article starts 'Safe Browsing and private Browsing is mus need to use when you are surfing net from cyber cafe or college or public computer.') I'm not a regular contributor to this article so I hope it's okay doing this removal, but it seemed like a reasonable thing to clean up. Pchown (talk) 14:22, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

Requested move 14 June 2018

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: Moved. (non-admin closure) –Ammarpad (talk) 13:25, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

. Privacy mode → Private browsing – A more generic term for the feature offered. More intuitively refers to the fact this is a term to do with web browsing Deku-shrub (talk) 11:16, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Support per WP:CRITERIA In ictu oculi (talk) 08:28, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Support. Not everything associated with privacy involves browsing the internet.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 06:10, 19 June 2018 (UTC)


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Disabling cookies?
"Privacy mode will also disable the storage of data in cookies" Doesn't privacy mode just store cookies as usual but simply deletes them when the browser gets closed? -Cardace (talk) 10:10, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Please update
I don't know how to represent it on the table but the new Chromium based Microsoft Edge's inPrivate mode shortcut is the same as Google Chrome. (Ctrl+Shift+N) and Ctrl+Shift+P prints instead. --Mullafacation (talk) 22:08, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

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"How to Delete Incognito History"
I'm going to remove this link, partly because the article it links to is poorly written, but also because I think it's factually incorrect. If Chrome is storing DNS entries relating to private browsing, it's a serious bug that should be reported to the maintainers. (It might also qualify for a bug bounty, so if you think this issue is real, go for it and see if you get some money!) Pchown (talk) 11:14, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

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