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Clear your web history

Clear your web history - macOS Tutorial

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Clear your web history

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- [Instructor] I'm going to open up Safari, where I want to talk about your history, which is a log that your web browser keeps of all of the pages you've recently visited. It can be really helpful if you're trying to remember a page you saw a few days ago, but it can also be a privacy concern. So let's see how to manage your history in Safari. First, I'm going to go to the history menu, and we can see these really convenient links for pages that I visited recently. Now, keep in mind, I just set up this computer to record this training course, so I don't have much history here. As time goes on, you will see more sub-menus with different dates. And of course I can click on one of these and go straight back to that page. But let's think about privacy. What if I go to a web page and I don't want anybody else to know that I've been there? What if you work for a law firm and the web pages you visit are part of private…

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