To avoid being identified and traced back to your smartphone, you can use private browsing mode in Chrome or Firefox or better yet, surf behind a VPN. Here’s how.
No way to navigate quietly! Cookies, IP address and browsing history inevitably betray you. To enjoy relative anonymity, it is possible to activate the private browsing mode of mobile browsers. This will prevent the sites from collecting your personal information and preventing the addresses of the pages you visit from appearing in the browsing history. If you want even more discretion, the use of a VPN is essential. So, Opera’s VPN app, available for free on the Android Play Store, acts like a smokescreen that lures the servers you connect to by giving them a borrowed IP address.
Browse in private mode
The easiest option is to use the tools made available to you by Google or Mozilla. To open a private surf session in Chrome, pull down the browser menu and press New nav tab. Private. The interface and the address bar then turn from white to black and a silhouette icon wearing glasses and spy hat tells you that you are in stealth mode. The procedure is completely identical with Firefox: pull down the menu, tap the option New nav tab. Private New tab and enter the address of a site.

Hide your real location with a VPN
Open Opera VPN and tap the Start button. Skip the short tutorial, then tap the command Connect. Once connected to Opera’s VPN, tap the button Change Geographic Zone. By default Opera associates you with the region closest to your actual location. This may not be suitable, especially if you want to visit sites that apply geographic filtering. In this case, choose the correct location: United States, Canada, Germany, Singapore, Netherlands, etc.
