Internet Explorer 8 to Feature Anonymous Browsing
One feature that has raised eyebrows among Web professionals is called InPrivate Browsing. According to Microsoft, this tool allows users to control whether Internet Explorer stores their web browsing history, and keeps cookies and other information. This feature in particular it is troubling to many in online marketing, as the use of cookies, or small informational files that are stored on the users computer, have become an important part of tracking the use of products and services online.
Internet Explorer 8 will also feature a Delete Browsing tool, which helps users to control their browsing history immediately after visiting a web site that gathers user information. The downside of this feature is that it could easily become quite annoying. These days, pretty much every web site online collects statistical user information. Most of this information is used only for statistical analysis of web page popularity, to determine the global location of visitors, or to understand which search terms they used in order to find a web page.
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-Ken
Internet Explorer 8 to Feature Anonymous Browsing
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