Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected
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Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected
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Re: Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected
#2Pretty embarrassing TBH. Both of those detection methods immediately come to mind when reading about their in-memory solution to the storage API problem. I can only imagine Google phoned it in on this one.
Re: Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected
#3I believe google has cut a deal with advertisers to ensure they can always identify incognito.
Re: Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected
#4Workaround for now:
1. Open the profile menu. (This is the icon in the top right, just to the left of the three vertical dots.)
2. Click "Manage people", click "Add person" (lower right).
3. Type "Darned Newspapers!" and click "Add".
4. When you get blocked, copy URL, use the profile menu to navigate to open a new "Darned Newspapers!" window, paste URL.
It's a real profile, so it should behave quite closely and should be harder to detect. Of course, unlike incognito mode, it will save your history, so be aware of that.
Re: Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected
#5Workaround for now: 1. Open the profile menu. (This is the icon in the top right, just to the left of the three vertical dots.) 2. Click "Manage people", click "Add person" (lower right). 3. Type "Darned Newspapers!" and click "Add". 4. When you get blocked, copy URL, use the profile menu to navigate to open a new "Darned Newspapers!" window, paste URL. It's a real profile, so it should behave quite closely and shoul…
Your other left. :)
Re: Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected
#6Workaround for now: 1. Open the profile menu. (This is the icon in the top right, just to the left of the three vertical dots.) 2. Click "Manage people", click "Add person" (lower right). 3. Type "Darned Newspapers!" and click "Add". 4. When you get blocked, copy URL, use the profile menu to navigate to open a new "Darned Newspapers!" window, paste URL. It's a real profile, so it should behave quite closely and shoul…
Your other left. :)
Oops, I'll fix that.
Re: Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected
#7Is this a cat-and-mouse game that's worth playing for Chrome?
Browsers are so complex that I imagine incognito mode is always going to leave some kinds of statistical signatures that can be detected and exploited through merely moderate cleverness, but will be much harder to hide on Chrome's side.
Is it worth it for Chrome? Or would resources be better spent on other parts of the browser?
It's not really a privacy/security problem or anything as far as I can tell -- just a way to bypass paywalls, right? "Sites not detecting my incognito mode" never felt like part of the web's "contract" to me.
Re: Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected
#8Is this a cat-and-mouse game that's worth playing for Chrome? Browsers are so complex that I imagine incognito mode is always going to leave some kinds of statistical signatures that can be detected and exploited through merely moderate cleverness, but will be much harder to hide on Chrome's side. Is it worth it for Chrome? Or would resources be better spent on other parts of the browser? It's not really a privacy/se…
Pretty important for scrapers ...
Re: Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected
#9I’m a bit surprised Chrome developers went the route of an in memory filesystem instead of trying to sandbox and clear real disk access. Silently using up to 120MB without realizing sounds pretty bad.
Re: Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected
#10Workaround for now: 1. Open the profile menu. (This is the icon in the top right, just to the left of the three vertical dots.) 2. Click "Manage people", click "Add person" (lower right). 3. Type "Darned Newspapers!" and click "Add". 4. When you get blocked, copy URL, use the profile menu to navigate to open a new "Darned Newspapers!" window, paste URL. It's a real profile, so it should behave quite closely and shoul…
Another workaround:
Disable javascript on the newspapers' sites. They load the full article and then use JS to hide it. (They also use JS to do the incognito detection in the first place.)