Incognito Mode Secret

Amit Agarwal was explaining to Digital Inspiration readers how to clear your browsing history and internet cache, if you’re using the Firefox browser. All well and good, if you want to keep your browsing habits a secret.

However, it’s all very well clearing your browser history, but if you’re using a tool like Google Desktop Search, it too keeps a record of what you’ve been browsing.

So, if you’re “gift buying” for someone with whom you share your computer and want to make sure they don’t find any evidence of your searching, then you have to temporarily disable that kind of indexing tool before you start.

Don’t be lulled into a false sense of security thinking that you’re safe from spying eyes if you’re using Google Chrome Incognito mode, Firefox or Safari Private Browsing, or Internet Explorer’s InPrivate. Browser privacy modes do not hide your browsing habits from GDS, although they save you the bother of having to clear the browser’s history.

Your surprise gift will be laid bare for all to see, if the person with whom you share the machine searches with GDS. Now, if there were filters one could enable in GDS then, Incognito mode would be the perfect tool for “gift buying”.

You can add a command line option to your shortcut to Chrome so that it opens in Incognito mode by default

“C:Documents and SettingsadminLocal SettingsApplication DataGoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe” –incognito