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Chrome’s new Incognito privacy features are already being sabotaged by websites

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Geekz Snow

Some websites are coming up with imaginative – and sometimes nefarious – ways of getting around a new Chrome feature that’s supposed to stop sites from detecting whether its visitors are using Incognito mode.

Incognito mode is a way to browse the internet more privately, stopping websites from installing cookies and tracking your movements online.

It’s not fully private, but it does offer more protection than standard browsing.

However, many websites have been using methods to detect if a visitor is using Incognito mode – such as trying to write data to a user’s hard drive using FileSystem API.

If they weren’t able to do that, it meant the visitor was using Incognito mode.

With Chrome 76, Google introduced a feature that allowed the browser to pretend to accept the request, but instead write the data to RAM – which would then be wiped.

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