When using a web browser, what should a user do to prevent private data from being stored locally?

Modern web browsers provide a private or incognito browsing mode that runs a session without writing history, cookies, form data, or cached content to disk. When the private window is closed, all session data is discarded, preventing locally stored traces of the browsing activity.

Creating a second browser profile still stores data locally within that profile's directory; it does not prevent local storage of private data.

Deleting the profile directory after browsing is a manual cleanup workaround and not a preventive measure, leaving data exposed during the session.

There is no separate 'secure version' of mainstream browsers designed to prevent local data storage; this is a feature of private browsing mode within standard browsers.

This is factually incorrect; Linux does not automatically log all network data, and private browsing mode is a well-established solution for preventing local data storage.