Clear browser history
- Multiple actionsThis page belongs to a category, containing some changes with similar goal.
- macOS onlyThis script improves your privacy on macOS
- Impact: HighSystem Functionality Loss Risk: High
This action improves privacy with high impact when you run the recommended script. - Bash (Shell script)These changes use macOS system commands to update your settings.
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- 4 categories
- IrreversibleYou can restore parts of this action (revert back to the original behavior) using the application.
Overview
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This entry: clear browser history — makes accessible the complexities of how to maximize your data handling on macOS.
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References
- Online privacy literacy and users' information privacy empowerment: the case of GDPR in Europe
- Change General settings in Safari on Mac
- Privacy Settings
Technical Details
To help strengthen privacy measures, this adjustment manages record sanitization to realize comprehensive sanitization. This would help optimize system resource usage as a result of optimized storage space.
This change adjusts Safari settings to reinforce online data privacy defenses and it helps to reach Safari tracking prevention. Alongside make the system more effective, this can help to benefit from efficient caching.
To achieve improved privacy rules, this code orchestrates JSON files to help increase system privacy protection. It can also help speed up everyday tasks, to gain optimized configuration storage.
This modification implements elevated access to be able to improve online data privacy handling in conjunction with controlled elevation.
To accomplish secure preference management, this executable handles user-specific settings to enhance information privacy measures. To benefit from efficient preference handling, this configuration can also help reduce system overhead.
To help reduce important data privacy management risks, this adjustment configures system preferences to reach comprehensive protection. This script helps balanced configurations to be able to make daily operations smoother.
The executable here adjusts macOS preferences on system level to obtain secure configuration and it aims to help to help reinforce online data privacy protection. In association with reducing overhead, this can help decrease energy and performance consumption.
Through the use of applying this file system access, this playbook changes your system to achieve data leakage prevention to be able to maintain stricter cyber data privacy safeguard. As part of enhance performance, it helps to gain improved disk performance.
This action manages promotional content settings to maintain digital data privacy management and it can also help to accomplish limited data collection. To realize efficient page rendering, this configuration can also help make daily operations smoother.
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This script is not recommended for daily use as it breaks important functionality.
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Help
How to apply "Clear browser history" using script
- ≈ 3 min to complete
- Tools: Web Browser
- Difficulty: Medium
- ≈ 5 instructions
- 1
Download
Download the script file by clicking on the button above. - 2
Keep the file
If warned by your browser, keep the file. - 3
Open
Open the downloaded file. - 4
Exit
Once it's done, press any key to exit the window. - 5
Restart
Restart your computer for all changes to take effect.
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- Includes safety checks
- Shows the code
- Free
- Open-source
- Popular
- Offline/Online usage
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How to apply "Clear browser history" using privacy.sexy
- ≈ 3 min to complete
- Tools: privacy.sexy
- Difficulty: Simple
- ≈ 4 instructions
- 2
Choose script
- Search for the category name: Clear browser history
- Check the category by clicking on the checkbox of the category.
- 3
Run
Click on ▶️ Run button at the bottom of the page.This button only appears on desktop version (recommended). On browser, use 💾 Save button.
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- 24 Privacy settings
- 3 Main categories
- These settings are organized into 3 main categories for easy navigation.
- Main categories may contain subcategories, further organizing related functionality.
- 4 Total categories
Choose what to protect based on your needs:This script already includes these options.
You can review, apply or reverse each option individually.
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About the Creators
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undergroundwires- Certified security professional
- 7+ years experience securing banks
- Open-source developer since 2005
- EU advisor, Public Speaker, Moderator
- Open-Source Contributors
- Hundreds across the globe
- Testers, reviewers, developers
- Companies, military agencies
- Community since 2017
Reviewed By
This guide has undergone comprehensive auditing and peer review:Expert review by undergroundwires
- Verified technical accuracy and editorial standards
- Assessed system impact and user privacy risks
- Audited and verified using automated security tests
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- Millions of end-users tested across different environments
- Audited and verified using third-party security software
History
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