With the launch of Mountain Lion, Apple released the next major version of Safari with a lot of new features. One of the major feature was the inclusion of a cool new Do Not Track feature, which enables the user to increase his privacy by not allowing websites to track essential user information for analytics and other purpose.
Usually, websites like Twitter, Facebook, Google and other social platforms track some user information for their own analytics purpose. But then, this analytics has caused some controversies before, and the users were badly in need of a feature that would optionally allow them to send their information to these services. And to bring this feature, Apple introduced Do Not Track option in Safari 6.
Here’s how you could enable this feature on Safari 6 for Mac:
- Fire up Safari and open its Preferences. You can access Safari’s Preference by pressing Cmd+,
- Now, look up for the Privacy tab
- You’ll find Website Tracking option and enable the checkbox for Ask websites not to track me option
- This will prevent websites from tracking you for their analytics.
Having done this, the feature does not fully protect you from being private. You can always opt for Private Browsing mode to obtain the zen of full privacy on your computers as well as mobile devices. Unchecking the check-box will allow the websites to track the user data again.