@inproceedings{95179d6c8e784b41870681b5062c13f1,
title = "Private browsing: An inquiry on usability and privacy protection",
abstract = "Private browsing is a feature in web browsers to prevent local users from gaining information about browsing sessions. However, it is not clear how well people interpret private browsing's functionalities and what are the privacy gains from using it. Towards studying people's understanding of private browsing, we conducted a survey on Amazon Mechanical Turk. Our survey results show that (1) one third of our participants were not aware of this privacy-enhancing feature, and (2) for people who knew or even used this feature, they had various misconceptions which could put them at risk. In the end, we provide design suggestions to help address these misconceptions.",
keywords = "InPrivate browsing, Incognito browsing, Private browsing, User privacy, Web privacy",
author = "Xianyi Gao and Yulong Yang and Huiqing Fu and Janne Lindqvist and Yang Wang",
note = "Publisher Copyright: Copyright {\textcopyright} 2014 ACM.; 13th Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, WPES 2014, in Conjunction with the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, ACM CCS 2014 ; Conference date: 03-11-2014",
year = "2014",
month = nov,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1145/2665943.2665953",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "97--106",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security",
}