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What does private browsing hide?
Private and Incognito windows forget some things on your device. Guess what they hide, then see what the browser makers say.
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The list of pages you visited, on this device
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Cookies that sites set during the private session
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Files you download
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Bookmarks you save
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Your visit, from the websites you visit
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Your activity, from your employer's or school's network
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Where you go online, from your internet provider
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Your browser's fingerprint, from a site that reads it
If you want to hide more
- The FTC says a VPN app “will typically obscure the content of your traffic” from your internet provider, and that it “just shifts trust” from that network to the VPN company.
- To see what a site can read from your browser, try “What does my browser tell every site?”.