Private browsing options can help you hide your internet history from your family or roommate, but those incognito options might not offer as much protection as you think.

For years, the most popular internet browsers have included options to search for and visit websites in “private” modes. Those options may now be viewed as vital tools for some in the wake of ...

A lot is riding on the success of Internet Explorer 8. Microsoft lost 7 percent browser market share in the past year because of users' unhappiness with Internet Explorer 7 and the emergence of ...

Google's "incognito mode" does not save browsing history or cookies to your device, but that does not stop your ISP from logging your activities or conceal your IP address.

This panoptic way of existing on the internet is the default for most browsers, and a handful of browsers that don't engage in such activities lie in a separate "private browsers" category.

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 ...