What is Private Browsing ? Does it actually protect us from monitoring and tracking ?

Now a days almost all web browsers offering the feature 'Private Browse'. For a newbie in Cyber security , it is enough to satisfy his privacy feelings though the fact is different. He just thinks OK , I am now safe from all kind of monitoring and tracking and no one can find my browsing details. In reality they are not right. First let us check the following questions regarding private browsing:

1. What is actually the private browse mean ?

2. Does it actually make us anonymous in Internet ?

3. Can Private Browsing protect our sensitive data from being stolen


What is Private Browsing
Private Browsing feature allow you to browse Internet without saving any temporary files or cookies in your computer. These files are files will be removed from your computer right after you close the private browse window. In Mozilla article they says when you browse Internet by using private browse feature the following files will not be saved in your computer.

1. Visited pages

2. Form and Search Bar entries

3. Passwords:

4. Download List entries

5. Cookies

6. Web cache files

To see the full Mozilla private browse article click on the link below.

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Private+browsing

Can Private Browsing allow us to browse anonymously?

Private browsing cannot make us anonymous. Still our IP address ,MAC address ,system configuration details etc are accessible by the owner of the website in which we logged in. If there any other tracking software installed on your computer ,private browsing will fail to fulfill its duty. So it is clear that private browse feature only removes the browsing data from being stored on your computer by the browser.


Private Browsing cannot protect your sensitive data from being stolen

Private browse cannot protect your sensitive data from being stolen by phishing websites. If you really need to protect your data from phishing websites ,you should use safe browse on your computer. But safe browse is different from private browsing.

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