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Q: Disable private browsing for children

Can anyone tell me how to disable private browsing in Safari? I do not see it on the parental controls section. I do not want to check logs after the fact and with more than one child to monitor and who is using the computer for homework it is not practicle/possible to list individual sites. I have seen an instruction to download Xcode and disable it using the developer's code -- is there any simpler solution?

MacBook, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)

Posted on Mar 22, 2013 9:07 AM

by Linc Davis,Solvedanswer
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Private browsing wouldn't prevent your kids from visiting any website. It would prevent their browsing history from being recorded in the history file, but they can easily delete that history anyway. However, if for reasons of your own you want to disable it, the only approved way is to push out a profile from an OS X Server. I'm not even sure that would work. I am sure it would be pointless.

Posted on Mar 22, 2013 10:46 AM

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  • by Linc Davis,Solvedanswer

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Mar 22, 2013 10:46 AM in response to DLRA
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    Mar 22, 2013 10:46 AM in response to DLRA

    Private browsing wouldn't prevent your kids from visiting any website. It would prevent their browsing history from being recorded in the history file, but they can easily delete that history anyway. However, if for reasons of your own you want to disable it, the only approved way is to push out a profile from an OS X Server. I'm not even sure that would work. I am sure it would be pointless.

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    Starkbytes Starkbytes Dec 17, 2015 11:18 AM in response to DLRA
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    Dec 17, 2015 11:18 AM in response to DLRA

    This question was posted a couple years ago.  Has anyone figured out how to disable the private browsing feature in Safari?  Thx in advance.