Even Facebook has a Tor-secure address to protect the location of users - and let users get access in places where the social network is illegal or blocked, like China. It's self-contained and portable, meaning it'll run off a USB flash drive if you don't want to install it directly. The free Tor Browser is available in 16 languages, for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It'll take longer to load a website than it would with Firefox or Chrome, but that's the price of vigilance. If you don't know about Tor, it's what used to be called The Onion Router it's all about keeping you anonymous by making all the traffic you send on the internet jump through so many servers, people on the other end can't begin to know where you really are. If you want to browse the web anonymously (and use that private time to set up an email), you need not only a virtual private network, but also the Tor Browser, a security-laden, Mozilla-based browser from the Tor Project.

Your browser's incognito/private mode can only do so much - sites are still going to record your IP address, for example. Sure, it's mostly about serving you targeted ads, but that's not much consolation for those looking to surf in private. Cookies, and so-called unstoppable 'super cookies' know where you've been and what you've done and they're willing to share.

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