IMac not keeping track of browsing history.

Hi, Please help with browsing history issue on iMac. It seemed to have frozen so I pushed 'clear history' which it did but now it's not keeping track of any history at all.
Thanks.

If it is I don't know how it got like that. Up until a few days ago it was not in private browsing and I did nothing knowingly to put it there. In trying to solve this problem I learned that there is such a thing as "private browsing' and I tried to see if it got set inadvertently, but I can't even find how to get to it.

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I have to sit without useable internet for 5 days when there is no fault, before anyone does anything about it ? BT visit the village to do something for another customer, mess up my perfectly working broadband, and then refuse to do anything about it for 5 days. And I pay full price during that time. Let's just hope they don't come back to do something else within those 5 days !!!
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