Apple + Security & Privacy

Apple’s Safari web browser offers a “private browsing” feature, which prevents storage of store browser history, download history, auto-fill entries, Google searches (in the Search field), and cookies. It turns out, though, according to an article on MacFixit, that some data gets recorded. Plug-ins, such as Flash Player, are not affected by Safari’s private browsing setting.

The article concludes by saying, “As such, if you’d like your browsing to be even more private, turn off plug-ins. In Safari, this can be accomplished by going to Safari > Preferences > Security and deselecting ‘Enable plug-ins.'”