InPrivate Browsing
Sometimes you don’t want to leave a trace of your web browsing activity on your computer. Whether it’s shopping for a gift on a shared PC or checking an account at an Internet café, you don’t want to leave any evidence of your browsing or search history for others to see.
InPrivate Browsing helps prevent your browsing history, temporary Internet files, form data, cookies, and user names and passwords from being retained by the browser. You can start InPrivate Browsing from the Safety menu, by pressing CTRL+Shift+P, or from the New Tab page. Internet Explorer will launch a new browser session that won’t keep any information about webpages you visit or searches you perform. Closing the browser window will end your InPrivate Browsing session.
InPrivate Filtering
Some of the content, images, ads, and analytics that you see on the websites you visit are provided by outside or third-party websites. While this content can provide value to both you and your favorite websites, these third-party websites have the ability to potentially track your behavior across multiple sites. InPrivate Filtering provides you an added level of control and choice about the information that third-party websites can potentially use to track your browsing activity.
InPrivate Filtering is turned off by default and must be enabled on a per-session basis. You can turn on InPrivate Filtering from the Safety menu or press CTRL+Shift+F. And you can access and manage your filtering options with InPrivate Filtering Settings on the Safety menu. Closing the browser window will end your InPrivate Filtering session.
Because InPrivate Filtering is designed to watch for and block only the third-party content that appears with a high frequency across sites you visit, no content is blocked until certain levels of frequency are detected. Depending on your web browsing activity and sites you visit, the amount of time it can take before such content is automatically blocked can vary widely. However, at any time, you can customize which third-party content is blocked or allowed in the InPrivate Filtering Settings dialog box.