Can I secretly Fluther on my phone?

Could you elaborate? What do you mean by “hide it like I do on my computer ”?

On my computer, I can (and do) use separate internets and incognito windows for Fluther. I suspect that I will be letting people use my phone, so I wouldn’t want them to stumble upon it.

Just do the same thing. Chrome and Firefox both have incognito modes, just like on the desktop.

But there are better options available to you as well.

When you say that people will be using your phone, do you mean that they will using the browser? Or will they occasionally pick it up and make a call with it, but you don’t want them to see your browser history or bookmarks?

If you want to just lock down your browser from peering eyes:

- install Smart AppLock and just set up a quick pattern lock on Chrome. This way, you will have to swipe the pattern to get to your browser, but at least nobody would be able to see your browser stuff. The advantage here is that you can leave yourself logged into Fluther.

If you want to be able to allow people to use your browser, but don’t want them to know about your Fluther life, another option would be to:

- Use Chrome as your main browser (or Firefox).
– Install Smart AppLock and lock a second browser. So, you could lock down Firefox with it.

This way, your main browser is conveniently unlocked. When you want to Fluther, you simply open the other browser and do the quick pattern lock. Now, you don’t have to login to Fluther or worry about your browser history.

Safari on iOS also has a private browsing mode.

Oh no! This is a little over my head. @hominid Your second option sounds likely, I’ll have to take time to understand it.
@johnpowell What does iOS mean?

As has been suggested, you can use an incognito mode within your browser.

I keep apps in various folders. You could put the fluther icon in a folder that people are unlikely to look in unless they’re snooping.

Enjoy your new phone.

iOS is the operating system iPhones/iPads use.

What kind of phone do you use? If it’s an Android phone/iPhone, do like what other suggested and go incognito. If you use something like this, just delete your browsing history when you know someone will borrow your phone.

I used Nokia C3–01 for Fluther for a year before upgrading to an Android phone last Christmas. And even with the old phone nobody knew I was on Fluther. I guess it’s because most people using my phone only cared about Facebook rather than seeing what I did with my phone. Still the cleaning browsing history policy helped.

1) Phones are far easier to control physical access to.

2) Android phones can be locked in a way that even law enforcement and Google can’t get around. iPhones can be brute-force hacked and thus lack that security.

If someone manages to grab my phone without also grabbing my left testicle AND can get past a lock screen that the police cannot, then incognito mode is moot… though also part of many Android browsers.

However, it’s not like Fluther is a porn site, so it’s not like it’s something you really need to hide. It’s also worth noting that anything you do on a Verizon phone can be tracked to you (unless you use wifi instead of 3G/4G) because Verizon slipped a nasty unique identifier into each of their phones.

Still, unless you’re doing the sort of stuff that the NSA would take interest in, the simple fact that you haven’t given us much info to go on in order to connect your @dxs Fluther identity with a name and address in the real world is the best way to preserve your anonymity.

I’ll have to figure out how to use incognito mode. I didn’t know I could do it in places other than chrome. Where the internet is it just says “internet”, and nothing else, so I don’t think my phone has chrome unfortunately. I’d rather not keep deleting browser history.
@johnpowell It’s not an iPhone. I’m not sure what it is because here’s no name on it other than Verizon.
@jerv #1 is good to know. It’s not that I’m scared someone will steal my phone, it’s if I let them use it. And geez, that sucks about Verizon. But why should they care about me? I’m not doing anything illegal. You’re kind of right that even if someone saw it, it probably wouldn’t even faze them. But, if I can and it’s easy, then why not? I think the odds of me actually Fluthering on my phone anyway are pretty slim.

[Addition]: I found the incognito tab! Success! Thanks, Jellies!

@dxs, I don’t want everyone to know I Fluther either. Especially not at work. I do Fluther on my phone though while waiting for public transport or at the docs or something like that. So it’s worth making sure the app is on your phone but perhaps hide the app somewhere nobody will look. Or only log in via the incognito tab and don’t put the app on your phone.

@jerv: Google has pulled encryption by default in Lollipop.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/3/8143607/android-lollipop-default-disk-encryption-performance

However Apple does it a bit differently. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/09/apple-expands-data-encryption-under-ios-8-making-handover-to-cops-moot/

@johnpowell Encryption being something that is opt-in instead of opt-out is a minor inconvenience rather than a weakness. The type of people who have legitimate need (or even a desire) for encryption either are cypherpunks or have their IT needs handled by one anyways, rendering it moot.
On the other hand, that Ars Technica article is missing a few things. I don’t want to specify them in a public area where I cannot know that everyone reading is a White Hat, but suffice it to say that their “different” approach has weaknesses; flaws that can easily be exploited by the imaginative.

@dxs: “Your second option sounds likely, I’ll have to take time to understand it.”

Take your time and explore. You can get pretty creative here. For example, you can enable a setting that will (secretly) take a photo of any user trying to access a particular app. This way you will actually be see who is trying to get to a browser that you may only use for Fluther, for example.