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type="topic" style="task"
id="browse-private">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#adv"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.10" date="2013-06-30" status="candidate"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.12" date="2014-01-28" status="final"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.33" date="2019-04-08" status="final"/>
<credit type="author copyright">
<name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
<email its:translate="no">kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
<years>2013</years>
</credit>
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<email its:translate="no"></email>
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<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
<desc>What is <em>incognito</em> mode?</desc>
</info>
<title>Private browsing</title>
<comment>
<cite date="2013-06-30">Kat</cite>
<p>Private browsing does not allow websites access to normal mode cookies
and does not save cookies from the private browsing session, while allowing
read-only access to the normal history. This page is aimed at people who do
not know what a cookie is.</p>
</comment>
<p>Private browsing is a mode which limits the way that your computer and
websites can access your browsing information. It is useful if you want to
lend your computer to a friend, for example, to check their email using
webmail because you will not be logged into any websites in the private
browsing window, nor will their information be saved. You might prefer
to use incognito mode to access sensitive websites such as Internet banking
and <link href="http://questionablecontent.net/">questionable content</link>
because data that websites have previously saved on your computer will not
be accessible to the websites when browsing in incognito mode.</p>
<note style="important">
<p>Incognito mode will not stop websites from tracking your browsing
activity. If you need to browse the web anonymously, you should use a
commercial VPN service.</p>
</note>
<steps>
<title></title>
<item>
<p>Press the menu button in the top-right corner of the window and select
<guiseq><gui style="menuitem">New Incognito Window</gui></guiseq>.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Browse the web using incognito mode.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>End the private browsing session by closing the incognito window.</p>
</item>
</steps>
<p>You can distinguish private browsing from normal browsing by the
watermark for the incognito window:</p>
<media type="image" mime="image/png" src="media/epiphany-private-3-36.png">
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<p>Screenshot showing a private browsing window with no opened tabs.</p>
</media>
</page>
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