Wednesday 19 October 2022 04:40 AM How you can REALLY hide your web searches from Google snoopers trends now

Newly revealed internal emails from Google engineers mocking the false promises of the search engine's Incognito mode have left many wondering how exactly they can truly search the web undetected.

In a series of emails cited in a California-based lawsuit on behalf of a million users, employees in 2018 poked fun at the deceptive advertising of the incognito feature that supposedly allows users to 'browse privately' and hide search histories.

The lawsuit alleges the private browsing option's logo - an outline of a mysterious man with glasses and a detective hat - is misleading since Google itself can still view consumer data.

Though Google employees unwittingly revealed Incognito mode not be all it is implied to be, one nearly foolproof way to surf the internet anonymously is to search within a web browser called TOR - first developed by the US Navy - while operating within a VPN (virtual private network) which hides your computer's identity from internet providers.

According to tech experts at digitaltrends, the best way to hide your identity and prevent your online data from being gathered and sold is to download a VPN onto your computer. 

Simply search something like 'download VPN' into your web browser and select either a paid or free product - Nord and ExpressVPN offering good paid options, and Proton VPN is a good free option - and download them onto your computer.

A VPN hides your IP address (basically a personal internet identification number number) from internet service providers like Verizon or Comcast in order to prevent them from seeing what you are doing online.

While surfing the web with a VPN on your computer is nearly foolproof, you need to take a few additional steps to ensure total anonymity. 

First, go into your web browser's settings and block all cookies (which are saved passwords, usernames, etc., which can be used to track where you have been online even when in a VPN - think of it as leaving footprints in the snow while wearing a mask over your face).

Second, you need to make sure you do not log into any browser accounts like a Google account, as that opens a direct line for whichever service you log into to track you.

Third, while browsing with your VPN enabled, browse within the disgraced Incognito mode - as the rest of your bases are covered from the previously described precautions, Incognito (or whatever the equivalent is on whichever search engine you are using) will not track your history

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