Surfing the web anonymously [closed]
- Use Tor
- Use Firefox with Adblock and Noscript
- Uninstall all plugins and extensions you don't need, things like Flash, Silverlight, Java, etc.
- If a site offers a HTTPS version, use it. (HTTPS is encrypted, unlike HTTP)
- Delete your cookies between sessions.
- Don't give any personal information away.
- If your ISP offers a dynamic IP address, use it. Release and renew your IP between sessions.
- Enable Firefox's private browsing feature.
- Install the RefControl addon and set it to block HTTP referrers.
- Use the User Agent Switcher to send a blank user agent, or spoof a completely different browser. (For example, if you're running Firefox on Vista, send IE7 on XP.)
Installing the Tor Bundle includes the TorButton Firefox extension, which won't allow plugins like Flash - these plugins could leak your identity, even when using Tor. For example, a Flash app could determine the local IP and send that information back to the server, so even if it's being sent over Tor, you're still hosed. So use Tor, Tor is good, but don't use any unsafe plugins.
To be certain that browsing history isn't saved on a hard disk, you can boot from a Linux Live CD and run Tor from there.
I would imagine you mean not keeping your information from being stored on your computer, but being stored on everyone elses. For the former, just use private browsing mode, which is now in every major browser.
For the latter, there are a few things you can do.
- Encrypt your connection
- When asked to be "remembered" by sites, don't
- Use proxies
- Don't have a Facebook/Twitter/whatever
Other than that, I do not know.
Not a direct answer to your question, but: when using Flash, then read some details on How to automatically remove Flash history/privacy trail? Or stop Flash from storing it?...