Although there are still days until Christmas Eve, surely you are already finalizing all the gifts. Internet is a great help to have everything but it can also be a problem if you buy something this Christmas or Kings for your partner or your children because there may be notifications and alerts and advertising that make the rest of the inhabitants of the house find out.
Internet knows and knows our tastes. If you are looking for something, it will show you more of what you have been interested in. And it is exactly what happens with gifts, which may appear to the rest of the members of your house or to someone with whom you share a computer. Notifications can even appear to the rest of the members of the house that let them know what gift they will have.
But there are a few steps we can take that can help us with this and that will prevent an advertisement from letting the gift recipient know ahead of time.
Always browse privately
Always open the incognito browser when you go to buy something but also when you go looking for it. This option will always be the best because it will make us look for gifts without leaving a trace. It may be annoying or you may forget it, but you will prevent ads from those stores you have visited from continually appearing, and all browsers allow us to do so. Especially if there are children and you share a tablet with them or share a computer.
You simply go to the browser and tap on ” new incognito tab ” from where you can see any website you want, search for offers, read product comparisons, buy…
Beware of shared accounts
Beware of shared store or email accounts, although this is usually rare. If you use the same Amazon account, it will find out what you have bought, so it is best that you temporarily create another account in any online store.
If you share an email, use one that only you have access to so they can’t see purchase notifications. Deleting it quickly is an option, but you must bear in mind that you may also receive other emails such as notification of order sent, delivery order… and we will not know when these emails will arrive or if someone will see them.
Clear history
When you buy something or look for any gift, delete the history. It is not necessary to look at it intentionally to know what we have searched for or bought, but Google may have recorded our last searches, completely ruining the surprise with our son or daughter but also with our partner.
Normally it will be enough to go to the configuration or settings of the browser and look for the “history” section. Google Chrome allows us to delete all browsing data but we can also avoid or deactivate by tours to delete all web pages visited on that day, in previous days or the entire history if we want to be sure.
Activate parental control
If you want your children not to find out, we can configure parental control on mobile phones, tablets or computers to prevent them from entering certain websites. For example, applications with which they can know their gifts or even in the app of stores like Amazon or Etsy where they only have to access the search engine to find recent orders.
In these cases, it is better to block access to all and avoid ruining the Christmas magic.