Windows 7 / Getting Started

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InPrivate Filtering

InPrivate Browsing's primary benefit is eliminating any local history of the Web sites visited by a user, whereas InPrivate Filtering attempts to improve privacy by blocking ads, images, analytics, and other tracking content that might allow Web sites to track a visitor across multiple Web sites. To the user, it's typically not obvious that the tracking content is coming from an outside Web site because the tracking content might be an image or video integrated into the Web page, or it could be completely hidden within the Web page.

InPrivate Filtering is turned off by default and must be enabled on a per-session basis. To use this feature, select InPrivate Filtering from the Safety menu or press Ctrl+Shift+F. InPrivate Filtering can be enabled in a standard browsing session or an InPrivate Browsing session.

By default, InPrivate Filtering blocks content that is shared across 10 different sites or more. You can reduce the number of sites by using the InPrivate Filtering Settings dialog box or by configuring the Administrative Templates\Windows Components \Internet Explorer\InPrivate\InPrivate Filtering Threshold Group Policy setting.

InPrivate Filtering determines how many Web sites a content provider might track a user across by logging data. To disable this logging, enable the Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Internet Explorer\InPrivate\Do Not Collect InPrivate Filtering Data Group Policy setting.

To disable InPrivate Filtering, enable the Administrative Templates\Windows Components \Internet Explorer\InPrivate\Turn Off InPrivate Filtering Group Policy setting.