About Private Browsing

While you browse the web, websites use tracking services to collect information about your online activity. Tracking services use the received information to analyze your activity and can use analysis results to show you relevant advertisements.

The Private Browsing component is designed to prevent the collection of information about your online activity.

In detection mode, the Private Browsing component detects and counts attempts to collect data and writes this information in a report. Detection mode is enabled by default, and data collection is allowed on all websites.

In blocking mode, the Private Browsing component detects and blocks attempts to collect data, and information about these attempts are written in a report. In this mode, data collection is blocked on all websites except:

You can manage the Private Browsing component via the Kaspersky Internet Security interface or with the help of the Kaspersky Protection extension in your browser.

Private Browsing has the following limitations:

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