This button is helpful only if someone is watching over your shoulder or enters a room and you need to quickly switch to another website. It will not prevent the other person from going through your browser history or from knowing you were on that website if they are monitoring your device or internet activity remotely.

 

To minimize the chances of someone knowing that you are researching information about gender affirming voice training or gender affirming care in general, follow these tips.

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1. If you think your devices or internet search activities are being monitored, access this information from a device that isn’t being monitored. That should be a device that the person do not or has not had physical or remote access. This is the safest thing to do if you don’t want someone to know that you are visiting these websites.

2. Sign out of other accounts, such as Google or Facebook, before visiting these sites.

3. Use your internet browser settings to increase your privacy, such as turning off browsing history or using the browser in-private mode. Read more about browser settings here.

4. If it is safe to do so, delete the websites URLs that you don't want stored from the browser history.

5. Use a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to increase the security of your internet browsing and activity.