{"id":149,"date":"2008-05-15T15:31:26","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T14:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.intego.com\/?p=149"},"modified":"2026-07-01T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:01:08","slug":"safaris-private-browsing-stores-some-user-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/safaris-private-browsing-stores-some-user-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Safari’s Private Browsing Stores Some User Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>, that some data gets recorded. Plug-ins, such as Flash Player, are not affected by Safari’s private browsing setting.<\/p>\n

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.'”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-apple","category-security-privacy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t