When you browse the Internet normally, your web browser stores data about your browsing. Your browser logs websites that you visit in your browser history, saves cookies from the website, and stores form data it can autocomplete later. It also saves other information, such as a history of files you’ve downloaded, passwords you’ve chosen to save, searches you’ve entered in your browser’s address bar, and bits of web pages to speed page load times in the future (in the web cache).
Privacy mode or "private browsing" or "incognito mode" is a privacy feature in some web browsers to disable browsing history and the web cache. This allows you to browse the Internet without storing local data that could be retrieved by someone examining your computer at a later date. Privacy mode will also disable the storage of data in cookies and Flash cookies. Privacy mode also includes tracking protection, which prevents companies from tracking your browsing history across multiple sites.
This privacy protection is only on the local computing device as it is still possible to identify frequented websites by associating the IP address at the web server. Privacy mode doesn't make you anonymous on the Internet. Your Internet service provider, employer, or the sites themselves can still track what pages you visit. Privacy mode also doesn't protect you from keyloggers or spyware that may be installed on your computer.
Privacy mode doesn't make you invisible on the Internet, but it does block web-sites from recognizing that you've been there before, or from putting cookies on your computer so that they know when you come back again.
To open private browsing in different browsers, use the following key combinations:
- Internet Explorer = Control+Shift+P
- Mozilla Firefox = Control+Shift+P
- Google Chrome = Control+Shift+N
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