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> You’re in private mode. Log in or create a free New York Times account to continue reading in private mode. This is the first time I'm seeing this message an
by thih9 7y ago
> You’re in private mode. Log in or create a free New York Times account to continue reading in private mode.
This is the first time I'm seeing this message and I hope this doesn't become a trend.
- quotemstr 7y agoIt's already a trend. The fault, IMHO, lies with browser vendors making it possible for sites to detect private browsing mode in the first place. That should be a privacy but and prioritized accordingly.
- scarejunba 7y agoI hope it does. It helps ensure that content creators are rewarded for creation.
- rootusrootus 7y agoThe PiHole I use at home renders a lot of media sites unavailable to me. I'm not going to subscribe to all of them, so it will effectively reduce my bubble to whatever I'm willing to pay for (and I'll tell you know, that will basically be whatever I can get from a single all-you-can-eat provider, like Apple News).
- scarejunba 7y agoI'm sure the actions of a person who would buy and set up a specialized device to block ads are not representative of the general population so I (and probably any other content producer) are not going to optimize for that use-case, though I do appreciate your sharing.
- rootusrootus 7y agoIt may be that "regular" people are more willing to have a dozen different media subscriptions for various sites, but I don't think that's a safe assumption.
- scarejunba 7y agoI definitely agree that that's unlikely to be true. However a guaranteed failing business model is a "no one pays" model. No ads. No membership. Content for free. Doesn't work.
- manfredo 7y agoDo browsers announce that they're incognito? Would it be difficult to disable this flag?
- jaredsohn 7y agoIncognito can be detected by via javascript looking at how the browser behaves differently in incognito. It looks like some of these detection mechanisms go away as Chrome gets updated but like seo, spam, viruses, and other such problems etc. there is a war aspect between trying to exploit and avoid exploiting. Some details can be found here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2909367/can-you-determine-if-chrome-is-in-incognito-mode-via-a-script/27805491#27805491 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2909367/can-you-determin...
- manfredo 7y agoI don't see how it'd be difficult to just obfuscate this. If it tries to write a cookie then let it write a cookie, just clear it on the next page reload. I don't see how it should be able to distinguish between an incognito browser and a non-incognito browser that has no history and is navigating to the page in question for the first time. I guess some things around local storage can be used to infer incognito mode, but I think it'd be straightforward to just write all local storage usage to memory instead of disk.
- jaredsohn 7y agoThe stackoverflow link I included says that the FileSystem API is disabled in incognito mode so its absence suggests the user is connecting via an incognito tab.
- jaredsohn 7y agoI think a workaround for this would be to open the site in another profile.