Chrome 76 blocks sites from detecting Incognito Mode

[silversurfer]

Google Chrome 76, the next stable version of Google's web browser, will block sites from detecting whether Incognito Mode is enabled in the browser.

All it took for websites up until now was to use a bit of code, like this one here, to determine if Incognito Mode was enabled in Google Chrome. The same detection worked in several other browsers including Opera and Safari.

Sites are using the information to block users from accessing content. When you open any article page on the Boston Globe website you are greeted with a "You're using a browser set to private or incognito mode. To continue reading articles in this mode, please log in to your Globe account".

In other words: the site prevented Incognito Mode users from reading articles at all unless they would have an account and sign in to it.

Incognito Mode or Private Browsing Mode is a popular option to read articles on newspaper websites, especially those with free article read limits. Data such as cookies is not stored locally in the mode so that sites cannot use cookies to keep track of the read articles.

Chrome 76 blocks sites from detecting Incognito Mode - gHacks Tech News

Google Chrome 76, the next stable version of Google's web browser, will block sites from detecting whether Incognito Mode is enabled in the browser.

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[TairikuOkami]

I do not even need incognito mode for that, simple live cleaning cookies/cache will do. It also help with streaming services and such.