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"Private Browsing." "Icognito." "Porn mode." Since 2005, every web browser has added a feature that automatically erases any record of visited websites, cookies or images. For the most part, these ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Although a private browsing mode known as “Incognito” in Google’s widely used Chrome browser has been available for nearly a decade, a legal settlement involving the way it works has ...