There are many reasons to want to use incognito browsing. To simply not wanting to leave a trace in the history of what you visiteduntil you momentarily log into an email account.
In this article we will specifically deal with logging web pages if you browse in incognito mode from your Mac. Whether you do it from Safari or Google Chrome, this trick will ensure that there is no trace of where you browsed.
Your Mac stores information about where you browse
Even if we delete the history or enter private browsing mode, the Mac collects DNS information every time you interact with a network server. It is therefore possible to know which web pages have been visited. These pages will not appear in history, so to find them in the DNS information you will need someone with computer skills. All It will depend on who you want to protect or hide from..
Steps to delete information accumulated in Mac DNS
You are determined and you want to remove all possible information of your Internet browsing. Bright! You will now have to follow the steps that we are going to give you for this. You will need to open the terminal and enter a series of commands.
- Open the app Terminal
- Copy and paste: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder
- Press the Enter key and enter the user session password
Ready! In this simple way you will have deleted the DNS cache of your Mac. From now on, there will be no trace of anything left. We, from Applesfera, We recommend clearing the DNS cache right after finishing the specific browsing..
If you’re worried that they’ve accumulated hundreds of thousands of web pages in your Mac’s DNS, don’t worry. When the Mac queries DNS for a name to resolve your IP, this It returns not only said IP but also an expiration or timeout. It is therefore not necessary to delete this cache unless you want to ensure that you do not leave a trace at a specific moment.
In general, For the navigation you want to have in incognito mode, this will be more than sufficient Use private browsing in Safari. We recommend Safari over Google Chrome because Apple’s browser has additional technologies to protect your privacy, like blocking trackers.
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