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by capableweb 1751 days ago
> No, we really did not have private browsing since the nineties. It's a new thing, for sure.

Indeed! Seems the first browser to implement some sort of incognito/private/separated profile (specifically to hide your tracks, not general like Firefox Profiles) was Safari around the release of Mac OS X Tiger (April 29, 2005).