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Is that what Chrome does? It seems like it has an in-memory session that stays intact unless all incognito windows are closed. When I login somewhere, close all
by therein 11y ago
Is that what Chrome does? It seems like it has an in-memory session that stays intact unless all incognito windows are closed. When I login somewhere, close all but one incognito tab and then navigate to that website again, my cookies are still there.
Also let's hope they aren't sending different headers like DNT etc. when in private mode, which would make fingerprinting a lot easier.
- cm2187 11y agoI am pretty sure your authentication cookie isn't shared between your regular and privacy sessions.
- ptaipale 11y agoYes, but it's shared between different sites within your "incognito" session. Open an incognito window, log in to Google, then go to some other place, and your Google login information is seen by that site.
- oneeyedpigeon 11y agoWhat do you mean by "your Google login information is seen by that site" because I can't think of anything it could correctly mean, even in non-incognito mode.
- poooogles 11y agoLogin to gmail. Now go to docs.google.com in a new incognito tab and all your docs will be visible.
- ptaipale 11y agoOr login to Gmail. Open another tab to read Hacker news, not logging in. Close your incognito Gmail tab. Read HN. Forget that you ever were in Gmail. Then leave HN and go to some other, completely different website that allows Google login. You'll get in there without another Google login; the incognito session remembers you.
- newjersey 11y agoHow would you implement it? Make each new tab a separate profile that we destruct on close?
- creshal 11y agoYou could make an argument whether you want one session per tab or one per window, but yes. Sharing state between "incognito" instances is both counterintuitive and potentially harmful.
- newjersey 11y agoI think the current approach is that there is just one regular and one incognito instance. So as long as any incognito tab is alive, your session is potentially alive as well. This allows us to move tabs across Windows. How would we do that with one session per tab or per window? Also what happens when user opens link in new incognito window?
- oneeyedpigeon 11y agoOK, you specifically meant subdomains of google.com. That really wasn't clear!
- crottypeter 11y agoYou are right. But it does seem to be shared between all incognito tabs in all incognito windows (including in further new incognito windows) until you close all incognito tabs/windows. This is not necessarily what users expect. New incognito window should mean NEW && INCOGNITO!
- cm2187 11y agoI would love if it could, but chrome can only handle a single incognito session.
- dnr 11y agoIt can handle a single incognito session per profile. If you start another one from a window belonging to a different profile, you'll get a different session. (And you can tell them apart because they copy some of the theming and appearance settings from the profile they were created from.)