Secure Your Internet Browsing Using Google Chrome

Privacy. That's the biggest, most important thing that you want to protect while you are online. Protect yourselves from, intrusive advertisements, harmful applications, browser hijacks, and unsolicited emails. There is no perfect method but there are steps you can take to increase your security.

Securing your internet browser is one of the best ways to protect your online presence. There's many ways to secure your browsing depending on which browser you use.

I'm going to focus on Google Chrome. It is my preferred web browser at the moment and I'll tell you how to optimize it for the most secure web browsing experience.

Open Google Chrome --> click on the three horizontal lines in the top right corner to open the settings menu.

--> click on "Settings" --> scroll to the bottom and click "Show advanced settings"
--> under Privacy put a check box in the last box "Send a 'Do Not Track' request with your browsing traffic"


The next part involves installing third party extensions to further protect your browser. These features aren't automatically built in so we have to add them in. The three extensions I recommend are these:
     1.) AdBlock - helps by blocking intrusive advertisments and annoying pop-ups.
     2.) AdBlock for Youtube - same as above but specifically for the Youtube video website
     3.) Clear history - clears out your browsing history as soon as you close the Chrome window.

--> next look over to the top-left side of the window and click on "Extensions" under the Chrome heading.
--> scroll to the very bottom and click "Get more extensions"
--> here you can manually search for the extensions listed above or if you want them right away without looking, here are the direct links.
     1.) AdBlock
     2.) AdBlock for Youtube
     3.) Clear history

Once AdBlock is installed in Chrome, it will show a small red stop sign icon with a small white hand in the center of it. The AdBlock icon can be found at the top-right corner of the Chrome window. A convenient feature with AdBlock is that it can show you how many unsolicited advertisements it currently stops by actively showing a number on it's red icon. This feature can be turned off by right clicking on it and choosing different settings, but I actually like to see the numbers just to see how intrusive some websites really are.


You can even go a step further and enable Chrome's Incognito mode. Incognito mode increases your privacy even more and helps to mask and stealth your online browsing from websites collecting your information. Enable it by pressing the keyboard shortcut CTRL + SHIFT + N.