The Internet browser Brave now gives a “Request Off the Record (OTR)” function that hides your browsing from different customers in your PC. This implies that a visited web site will not be saved within the browser’s historical past, cookie, or short-term folders, making it much like the “incognito window” in Chrome and different browsers.

An internet site can use the brand new function by including the code Request-OTR: 1 to the header. But you have to first activate OTR in Brave. Enter courageous://flags within the URL bar. Now enter the time period “OTR” within the search subject and choose “Enable” from the drop-down menu after “Enable Request-OTR Tab.” After restarting the browser, the function is activated.

If you subsequently name up such an internet site with Brave, the browser asks whether or not the web site ought to be opened confidentially. If you click on “Yes,” a brief storage space is created for caches, cookies, authorizations, and the like. This storage space is deleted once more once you depart the web site.

To be capable to use this function, you have to replace Brave to model 1.53. You can view the present model of your browser by way of the “About Brave” menu icon. The function is helpful, however the variety of internet providers that supply OTR nonetheless appears to be restricted, so that you might need higher outcomes utilizing an Incognito window in Firefox or one other browser till Brave’s new OTR function spreads additional.

This article was translated from German to English and initially appeared on pcwelt.de.