Incognito Mode Detection Still Works in Chrome Despite Promise To Fix
'Websites are still capable of detecting when a visitor is using Chrome's incognito (private browsing) mode, despite Google's efforts last year to disrupt the practice. From a report: It is still possible to detect incognito mode in Chrome, and all the other Chromium-based browsers, such as Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, and Brave, all of which share the core of Chrome's codebase. Furthermore, developers have taken the scripts shared last year and have expanded support to non-Chrome browsers, such as Firefox and Safari, allowing sites to block users in incognito mode across the board. Currently, there is no deadline for a new Chrome update to block incognito mode detections, however, today, Google might be interested more than ever in fixing this issue' -- source: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/20/06/04/1857211 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 13:06:23 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'Furthermore, developers have taken the scripts shared last year and have expanded support to non-Chrome browsers, such as Firefox and Safari, allowing sites to block users in incognito mode across the board.'
I have been using this addon <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-private-mode/?src=search>. Still seems to work.
'Furthermore, developers have taken the scripts shared last year and have expanded support to non-Chrome browsers, such as Firefox and Safari, allowing sites to block users in incognito mode across the board.'
I have been using this addon <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-private-mode/?src=search>. Still seems to work.
Thanks for sharing! Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 13:06:23 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'Websites are still capable of detecting when a visitor is using Chrome's incognito (private browsing) mode, despite Google's efforts last year to disrupt the practice.'
Apropos this, here’s an article <https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/21/cookie_clearing_chrome_extension_dmca/> from a creator of a Chrome extension that specifically defeats the paywall on one particular site, that mentions advice from lawyers that such code is illegal in the US under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Of course other lawyers may disagree, but Whether that interpretation would immunize the creation of software built to bypass a paywall may have to wait for actual litigation. And “actual litigation” is liable to be difficult, drawn-out, expensive and painful for someone without access to a 6-figure-and-above legal budget. In short, win or lose, it can totally bugger up your life.
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