

Once you've removed any unwanted cookies, click Done. To review the current cookies installed in your Chrome application, click the All cookies and site databutton (pictured above) and then scroll the list of installed cookies, deleting each unwanted cookie one at a time (or use the Remove allbutton to remove them all). Select the Block sites from setting any data option to prevent third parties from depositing cookies without your permission. Scroll down to the Privacysection and click the Content settingsbutton to open the Cookies dialog box, pictured below. In Chrome, click the menu in the top- right corner and select Settings, Show advanced settings. Instead, an alternative is to use Chrome in standard mode but adjust its cookie settings as follows.

When using Chrome in incognito mode, Google, your internet service provider, your employer (when you access the internet through your employer's router), and possibly other third parties can still track the websites you visit and files you download.īecause incognito mode disables auto- passwords and autofill, it may not always be your best option. Be aware that incognito mode does not provide absolute privacy protection. This option makes it easy to launch Chrome in your choice of either standard or incognito mode, which can sometimes be useful because incognito mode does not access website passwords previously memorized in your browser. On the Shortcut tab, in the Target box, add the phrase " -incognito" (a space character, a hyphen, and then the word "incognito") to the end of the text in the Target box, as pictured below, and then click OK. (If you are using a taskbar shortcut on Windows 7 or 8, right-click the Google Chrome icon on your taskbar, right-click Google Chrome in the list, and then select Properties to open the Google Chrome Properties dialog box.)ģ. Right-click the shortcut and select Properties from the pop-up menu. Click the Windows 10 Start button, scroll down to the Google Chrome application icon, then left-click and drag that icon onto your Desktop.Ģ. To launch Chrome's incognito mode by default in Windows 10, create a shortcut on your Desktop and edit the shortcut's command line as follows:ġ. Is it possible to make incognito the default mode whenever I launch Chrome?Ī.Opening Chrome in incognito mode enables you to browse the internet more securely without saving third- party cookies to your computer, caching text and pictures to your computer, or recording the websites you visit or the files you download to your browsing history files.

To avoid unwanted cookies I use Google Chrome's incognito mode.
