How to Cover Your Tracks Every Time You Go Online
Venture online nowadays, and your presence is immediately logged and tracked in all manner of ways. Sometimes this can be helpful—like when you want to see new movies similar to ones you've watched in the past—but very often it feels invasive and difficult to control.
Here we're going to show you how to cover some of those tracks, or not to leave any in the first place. This isn't quite the same as going completely invisible online, or encrypting every single thing you do. But it should help you sweep up most records of your online activity that you'd rather disappear.
The easiest and simplest way to browse the web with fewer digital footprints is to open up an incognito window, as Chrome calls it. On Firefox and Safari it's a "private" window, and on Edge it's called InPrivate, for some reason. Using an incognito window means none of your browsing history gets saved in the browser's logs; that's why you can't bring back a tab you've accidentally closed in incognito mode, because your browser has already forgotten all about it.
