Go Private Quickly

About

Go Private Quickly does one small thing and tries to do it well: it puts a button in your toolbar that opens a new incognito window. Click the icon, click the button, you're private. That's the whole idea.

I built it because I open incognito windows all day and wanted it to be one click instead of a trip through a menu — and because I wanted something that stayed out of the way and didn't quietly phone home. This one never connects to the internet at all.

WHAT YOU GET
- One click to a new incognito window, straight from the toolbar.
- A toolbar icon that quietly shows whether the window you're in is private.
- An optional "Hardened" mode that opens an incognito window and tightens a set of privacy settings for that session only: WebRTC IP protection, network prediction, search suggestions, hyperlink auditing, the Topics / ad-measurement / FLEDGE advertising APIs, third-party cookies, and more. Your browser puts them all back automatically when the last incognito window closes, so your normal browsing is never changed — and security protections (Safe Browsing, your password manager, certificate/HTTPS checks, updates) are never touched.
- A few optional Advanced toggles for power users (stricter WebRTC routing, disabling referrer headers) — off by default, each clearly labeled with its trade-off.

WHAT IT HONESTLY DOES NOT DO (I'd rather set expectations than oversell)
- It's not a VPN. Your network, ISP, employer, or school can still see the sites you visit.
- It doesn't hide your IP, block ads or trackers, or make you anonymous.
- It doesn't touch your normal browsing or clear anything.

If you want real anonymity, use Tor. For network privacy, a reputable VPN. For tracker blocking, uBlock Origin. GPQ plays nicely alongside all of them — it just gets you into a private window faster, and optionally tightens the browser's own privacy settings while you're there.

PRIVACY, FOR REAL
- No data collection. None.
- No analytics, no telemetry, no error reporting.
- Zero network requests — the extension never connects to the internet, period.
- Two permissions, both minimal: "storage" (remembers your own settings) and "privacy" (used only to apply the hardening to the incognito session you open — never to your normal browsing).
- No third-party code, no CDNs, no remote scripts. It's open source, so you can read every line.

ONE-TIME SETUP
By browser security policy, an extension can't switch itself on in incognito windows. The first time you install, a short welcome page walks you through flipping "Allow in Incognito." You only do it once.

Works on Chrome and every Chromium browser — Brave, Microsoft Edge, Arc, Opera, and Vivaldi all install it from here.

Open source under the MIT License: https://github.com/DJCastle/browserExtensions
Questions or problems: [email protected]
Source: https://github.com/DJCastle/browserExtensions
Privacy Policy: https://browserextensions.codecraftedapps.com/go-private-quickly/privacy.html
Terms of Use: https://browserextensions.codecraftedapps.com/go-private-quickly/terms.html