IE8 “inPrivate” — Anonymous Browsing
Posted by: Nathan Comments: (4) Date: August 28, 2008If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Upon the release of Microsoft’s latest version of Internet Explorer, IE8, in the Beta 2 version this week (with the final version scheduled to arrive later this year), there have been some news reports on the new browser’s inPrivate feature, which reportedly enables users to browse the Internet anonymously.
According to PC World, when enabled, the inPrivate feature prevents the browser from saving all sensitive data such as log-in info, passwords, and history. It’s meant to be a security feature, but as PAP member Arnoldpalmer recently pointed out in the Forum, this inPrivate function may pose a potential problem for affiliates who rely on tracking.
What do you think? Could this new feature (which is almost sure to be heavily utilized) threaten the way affiliate marketers do business?
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August 29th, 2008 at 5:09 am
I don’t see a threat.
People will only use this “InPrivate Browsing” feature sparingly. Think about how annoying it is when all your cookies get deleted and none of your sites or forums remember who you are and you need to keep relogging in. Should be fine.
August 29th, 2008 at 7:12 am
Definitely.
If this tool gets used by a good percentage of users, we will see two things: bonus codes increasing in importance, and affiliate sites pushing firefox to all of their readers
August 29th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Another reason to sell only text links
September 9th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
This seems to me like Microsoft trying to hit Google where it hurts, it’s advertizing revenue. No coincidence that Chrome is coming out at the same time.
They don’t seem too concerned about how this affects all us little guys as they escalate the battle of the internet giants one more step.