The idea that Google probably knows more than your therapist and lawyer is scary, isn’t it? Google, the world’s most popular search engine knows you inside out thanks to your search history. It keeps a track of all your online activities through various hidden tools and it’s really not that difficult for Google to spy on its users since most people use Google products like Chrome, Gmail, and YouTube.

Our online searches are often personal and we do not want the outside world to know about them. Discretion in this case is totally justified since every individual has a right to privacy. Moreover if others have access to your web search history it is quite easy for you to fall in the ‘getting hacked’ club since the anonymous hackers will have all the necessary information from your chrome history like your likes, dislikes and thus gain a general idea about your personality. Read more…

When you browse the Internet, your web browser will automatically save lots of information for you, such as sites you‘ve visited, files you’ve downloaded and more. However, sometimes you may come across some private things and you don’t want other users of your computer to see this information.

If you are Mozilla Firefox user, you can turn on its Private Browsing feature to browse the Internet without saving any browser history, search history, download history, web form history, cookies and temporary Internet files. Read more…