Hi
How does public browsing work? What does it mean? How it is essential in today’s life? What are its pros and cons?
Puplic Browsing, A New Mass Communication Method
Hi
Browsing in Public, the term itself says everything. It means sharing some web page or browsing history with your friends or relatives, etc. It enables users to select what aspects of their browsing they want to share with others. It helps in providing information about where your friends are, what they are doing at that moment, etc. However, such things come with their own vices. Sometimes, people tend to share too much information which becomes a problem for them. So this browsing technique has pros as well as cons. It depends on how well the user uses it.
Puplic Browsing, A New Mass Communication Method
You are probably referring “public browsing” to the normal way you browse or surf the internet with your web browser. By default, when you start your web browser and visit websites, your browsing history is available and accessible to anyone who has access to the same account. This means if other users have access to your account, they can see all the websites you visited on the web browsers.
The opposite of “public browsing” is “private browsing” or “incognito” in some browsers. Private browsing or incognito mode is a privacy feature in several web browsers which disables the browser’s web cache and browsing history. In this scheme, a person or a user can browse the internet without storing local data that can be retrieved at a later time.
This browsing mode also disables the storing of data in cookies and Flash cookies. This privacy protection only applies within the web browser application because it may leave traces on the hard drive and memory of the device as well as on websites by associating the IP address at the web server.
The earliest reference to private browsing was way back in May 2005 when it was used to discuss the privacy features in the Safari web browser bundled with OS X Tiger. Since then, the feature was adopted in other web browsers and led to popularization of the term in 2008 by mainstream news outlets and computing websites when they discuss the beta versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.
