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Can private browsing be permanently disabled so my teenage son cannot browse without my knowing what sites he has been to?

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mswoo2007
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There is private browsing on FireFox on the computer my son uses. How can this be permanently disabled so he cannot visit websites that I don't know about?

There is private browsing on FireFox on the computer my son uses. How can this be permanently disabled so he cannot visit websites that I don't know about?

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Hasan
Hasan
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Disable Private Browsing

Check and tell if its working.

cor-el
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Be aware that there are other ways to clear the history and cache apart from running in PB when data is not saved to disk at all.