You might not want other people to see you’ve been looking at the Disrespect NoBody website and there are steps you can take to hide your visits. If you want to be completely anonymous, maybe you could use the internet in a safe place away from your home, e.g. at a library, a friend’s house or at school.
Hiding your tracks on a mobile device
If you are accessing the site using a mobile phone or a tablet, these are the steps that you should follow to hide your tracks.
APPLE DEVICE – IOS (SAFARI)
Deleting your history
Private browsing
ANDROID (Chrome)
Deleting your history
Private browsing
NOKIA LUMIA (Internet Explorer)
Deleting your history
Private browsing
Private browsing is only available on a limited amount of Nokia Lumia devices, (devices that run Internet Explorer 11), however if your device does support private browsing, these are the steps.
While you are using the site on a Desktop
If you are concerned that someone else may see you visiting this site, and you don’t want them to find out what you’re looking at, the quickest way to hide the site is to close the window.
You can even use a keyboard shortcut:
Windows: ‘ALT’ key and ‘F4’
Mac: ‘Apple’ key and ‘W’
You could also open another browser window and leave it open at another website, placing it behind the window to this site. So if you have to quickly close the main window, you will not be left looking at a blank screen.
After you have visited the site
When you use the internet, information about a site you’ve visited is stored on your computer, this is called your Internet History. You might not want other people to see you’ve been looking at the Disrespect NoBody website and there are steps you can take to hide this.
If you want to visit websites without storing any information you can use Private Browsing.
If you don’t use Private Browsing, you can keep your visits to the Disrespect NoBody website secret by deleting your Internet History, cookies and clearing the search in your toolbar.
Don’t worry, deleting these isn’t difficult – just follow the steps below:
To find out which internet browser you’re using, click on “Help” on the toolbar at the top of the screen. A drop down menu will appear, the last entry will say “About Internet Explorer”, “About Mozilla Firefox” or something similar. Click this and you will see your browser name and version number. Then follow the relevant instructions below:
GOOGLE CHROME
FIREFOX
INTERNET EXPLORER 6
INTERNET EXPLORER 7 AND 8
OR
INTERNET EXPLORER 9
INTERNET EXPLORER 10
SAFARI
Resetting Safari clears the history and cookies but also clears the downloads and removes any saved user names and passwords or other AutoFill data and clears Google/Yahoo search entries.
To do this:
OPERA
Click on the menu at the top-left of the Opera window. Then click on ‘History’. Once you’ve done that, find the websites you want to delete in the list, select them, and press ‘delete’.
You might also be worried that someone else might have access to your emails, and may be able to read messages you’ve received and sent.
Any email you have sent will be stored in Sent Items. Go to Sent Items and delete emails you don’t want a person to see. If you started an email but didn’t finish it, it might be in your Drafts folder. Go to the Draft folder to delete it.
If you reply to any email, the original message might also be in the body of the message – delete the reply you’ve sent as well as the first email if you don’t want anyone to see any of your messages.
When you delete an item, most email programs move it to a folder called Deleted Items. To permanently remove them, you have to go to the Deleted Items folder and delete them forever.
To stay safe, it’s a good idea to choose a password that it will be difficult for someone else to guess – and change it regularly, just in case.
You could also set up a new email account. Use a provider like Outlook or Gmail for an account you can access from anywhere, and use a name that is not recognisable as you, for example bakedbeans@emailprovider.com. Keep this email secret.
With thanks to NSPCC, Women’s Aid and SERICC for their advice on this topic.