Search Privacy

So, you might have heard about searching "Incognito" on browsers, particularly Chrome.

Well, I found out today that searching "incognito" is not the complete level of browsing privacy.  You do need to change a setting in your browser's Options to make sure that your computer is not sending information to the various websites.

Here's the instructions for Firefox:

1. Click on the Firefox settings menu (if you're running the latest version, this is going to be in the upper left corner with the word "Firefox" and a drop-down arrow.
2. Click on Options.
3. Click on Privacy
4. At the very top, there is a section for "Tracking".  Set this to "Tell sites that I do NOT want to be tracked.
5. Make sure you save the settings.

And here's the instructions for Chrome:

1. Click the Settings menu for Chrome (upper right at the end of the Address Bar- has the obvious "settings' icon of three bars- that's sarcasm)
2. Once you open it, you will need to click the Advanced Settings
   
3. After clicking this, scroll down until you see the Privacy Settings.  
4. Check the last option- to DO NOT TRACK.
   
5. You don't need to click Save because it save automatically.

I'd include IE, but, honestly, who uses that anymore?