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> Wouldn't that effectively hide all traces of any browsing history locally, be it nefarious or otherwise?

No; on the Mac, `dscacheutil` still knows about the sites you visit during private browsing, and I am certain that similar logs exist on other OS's. (Of course, your ISP also knows what sites you're visiting, but I guess that's what you meant by 'locally'.)



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