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Bloomberg Joins The New York Times in Detecting Chrome's Incognito Mode
see: https://i.imgur.com/MSGQbIm.png
In August some (e.g. [1],[2]) were writing about sites detecting private browsing, specifically the NYT, in order to block people who were using Incognito mode in Chrome to get around free article limits. Looks like Bloomberg now has this feature active as well.
[1] https://9to5google.com/2019/08/09/new-york-times-detect-incognito-chrome-76/
[2] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chrome-incognito-mode-can-still-be-detected-by-these-methods/
- wallacoloo 7y agoNot just Chrome: they do the same thing if you're using Firefox Focus on mobile (which probably means they block Firefox Private Browsing on desktop, too).
- MrMember 7y agoI just checked and they detect private browsing in mobile Firefox so I assume the same is true for desktop.
- TheChaplain 7y agoFirefox containers is the solution, especially with this addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-containers/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con... What it does is create a new container every time you visit the specified site. *Edit: Spelling.
- rasz 7y agoThere must be a Chrome version of this extension, its trivial to implement (shim all the storage APIs to delete data on page close).
- savanaly 7y agoFor those who don't know, you can get around their incognito detection. Go to chrome://flags/ and set "Filesystem API in Incognito" to enabled.
- carrutstick 7y agoDoesn't work for me, unfortunately :-/
- tim_evans101 7y agoDidn't work for me. But hitting the Escape key once main content had loaded and before Icognito warning initiated did.
- jaredsohn 7y agochrome profiles is another solution for this
- ekafasco 7y agobrave private mode is still undetected