IE 8 to include private browsing feature

[Humpty]

Known as InPrivate, Microsoft is touting the feature as one of several security enhancements within its next major browser release. The scenarios for using InPrivate include when you're using someone else's computer, when you need to buy a gift for a loved one without ruining the surprise, or when you're at an Internet kiosk and don't want the next person to know which Web site you visited. While you can currently clear the browser cache with a mouse click, it's an all-or-nothing action. InPrivate temporarily suspends the automatic caching functions, allowing you to keep the rest of your browsing history intact.

Cnet Article

[rridgely]

Safari does this already.

I dont get the big deal, lots are hyping it as "porn mode". I'm not sure why they couldn't just delete their stuff when their finished... then again I dont like having IE pop up with past searches and stuff(and I pretty much just visit the same few sites everyday anyway. ) so I dont mind it deleting all of my cache, ect.

[YoKenny]

From IEBlog

Privacy Beyond Blocking Cookies: Bringing Awareness to Third-Party Content

 

Previous posts have covered trustworthy principles in general and some product specifics as well. Privacy is an important part of trustworthy computing. This post discusses one aspect of privacy on the web: third-party content.

 

When most people browse the web, they think what they see in the address bar and the site they are visiting are the same thing. However, web sites today typically incorporate content from many different web sites. For the sake of clear terminology, the site the user browses to directly (seen in the address bar) is the first-party site; the other sites that the first-party site incorporates in its site experience (but that the user hasn?t navigated to directly) are third-party sites.

 

When you browse to a first-party site, you know that it can collect information about how you use the site. What many users don?t realize is that technically, third-party sites can collect information about users as well. Users aren?t typically well-informed about which third-party sites are collecting what information, how the sites use this information today, or how the sites could use the information in the future.

http://blogs.msdn.com:80/ie/archive/2008/0...ty-content.aspx