You may have noticed a setting on Android called Private DNS. It's on by default, and you're best off leaving it that way.

Your browser of choice probably offers an more private mode—but how effective is it? (Michal Vavro/Unsplash/) Lorrie Cranor is a professor of Computer Science and ...

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 ...

If you want to enable extensions in incognito mode on your browser, go to the Extension settings page, find the extension you want, and toggle the option that says “Allow it incognito or in Private ...

Internet Explorer’s InPrivate Browsing, Chrome’s Incognito mode, and Firefox’s and Safari’s Private mode all seek to do the same thing: Prevent other users from seeing what sites were visited by the ...

Samsung appears to be taking smartphone privacy to the next level with its upcoming Galaxy S26 Ultra. Instead of relying on ...

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Bug in Firefox Android let keyboards save input from private tabs. Only new toolbar users affected. Fix live in Firefox 144.0 ...