Recently Microsoft Filed a patent of Automatic Incognito Mode Switching, Description states that this new technology is going to introduced in Microsoft Edge Browser. Microsoft Edge has a lot of build-in features. Microsoft Edge is the default web browser in Windows 10 and it has been a year since it got released. It uses Edge HTML as the web rendering engine and allows us to do more on the web with its built-in Cortana, reading tools, and note-taking features. As a whole Microsoft Edge provides a more efficient, more secure, faster, productive, and more compatible experience to all Windows 10 users. Most awaited features like support for extensions, notifications from websites, pinning tabs, and much more got added to Microsoft Edge in the latest Windows 10 version 1607.
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ToggleWhat is Automatic Incognito mode switching?
When talking about Browsing mode, Browsing mode is not a big feature to explain the key concept is when we don’t want to save what we are browsing in the PC then we have to enable the Privacy mode. Privacy mode or "private browsing" or "incognito mode" is a privacy feature in some web browsers to disable browsing history and the web cache. This allows a person to browse the Web without storing local data that could be retrieved at a later date. Privacy mode will also disable the storage of data in cookies and Flash cookies.
Nowadays all the browser comes with Incognito mode feature, If we need to browse privately we can easily switch to Incognito mode. This won't save any of the browsing histories in PC. But sometimes while browsing we forgot to switch to Incognito Mode then that situation will become more awkward. But Automatic Incognito mode switching is a very good idea. Sometimes we will browse some sensitive data information in browsers like medical lists, goods, or our own personal. We don’t want to lose any of our personal data to be saved in the cloud.
Microsoft edge Automatic Incognito Mode Switching.
As per the diagram Private Mode automatically Trigger when it detects an “objectionable” website being browsed.
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Automatic Incognito mode switching involves Monitoring one person's Internet life. monitoring a person’s browsing activity all the time or verifying website domains against the database in the cloud which might make people a little uncomfortable.
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