Disguised browsing
If someone might glance at your screen, your tabs, or your history, you can use this site through a disguise: an ordinary-looking website that shows nothing about help resources. Right now, the disguise is Everyday Kitchen, a real, browsable recipe site. The disguise changes from time to time, so old screenshots of it go stale.
What the disguise does — and does not do
- While disguised, the page, tab title, tiny tab icon, and web address all belong to Everyday Kitchen. Someone glancing at the screen sees an ordinary website. Anything you open behind the disguise adds no new entries to your browser history.
- It does not clean up anything that already happened: this page you are reading now is in your history, and so is anything else you visited here without the disguise.
- It does not help against monitoring software that records the screen or keystrokes, or against someone standing behind you reading along.
Memorize one way back in
Inside the disguise there are no hints, no menus, and nothing to discover by poking around — that's the point. Learn one of these now; each needs deliberate, repeated input, so it can't happen by accident:
- Hold the site name. Press and hold the Everyday Kitchen name at the top left for a slow count of three, then release.
- Tap the © mark. Tap the little © at the bottom of any page five times quickly.
- Arrow keys. On a keyboard, press ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ↑ within a few seconds (anywhere except inside a text box).
- Corner taps. Tap the very bottom-left corner of the screen three times quickly.
- Search for the phrase. Type “sunday lemon cloud cake” into the site's search box and press Enter. It looks like an ordinary search — even if your keyboard remembers it, it reads as one. If you use a screen reader, this is the method built for you: the search box is an ordinary labeled search field.
Leaving fast, and what leaving can't do
Every screen of the hidden interface has a plain ✕ Leave button in the top corner, and the Esc key does the same thing: one press instantly hides everything, cancels anything still loading, wipes whatever you typed, ends any signed-in session, and moves the browser to an ordinary page. It works even with no internet connection, and other open tabs of this site lock themselves too.
Be honest with yourself about its limits: it cannot erase browser history from earlier, files you downloaded, or anything recorded outside this page. If the device itself may be monitored, the guides under Devices explain what that can mean.
What this site cannot protect you from
Being clear about limits is part of keeping you safe. Whatever you read elsewhere on this site, none of its protections can prevent:
- Someone taking a screenshot, or a photo of the screen with another device.
- Browser history that synced to another phone or computer before or while you used this site.
- Your internet provider — or whoever controls the Wi-Fi — seeing which sites you visit.
- Spyware installed on the device's operating system.
- Keyloggers, which record everything typed.
- Someone physically watching you use the device.
- Anything at all, if the device itself is fully controlled by someone else.
If any of these may apply to you, the safest option is a device the person cannot access — a public library computer, a trusted friend's phone, or a work terminal. The Devices guides explain how to judge that. Read the device guides.
Ready?
One step: open the disguised site. Nothing on it will mention this page again, so make sure you remember a way back in first.
The Leave button (or the Esc key) instantly hides this page and opens a weather site. It does not erase browser history, downloads, or anything already saved on this device.