3 ms·

How would this system know chrome was running incognito?

by cortesoft 2y ago

kccqzy 2y ago
Develop an API in Windows. Contribute to the Chromium codebase to use this API.
- willcipriano 2y ago
  We already have "Launch as Administrator" add "Launch in private mode"
  - reverius42 2y ago
    So now the user has to remember to not only open a private window or tab in their browser, but also open the whole browser in private mode?
    - willcipriano 2y ago
      If you want to be really consumer focused, the OS could keep the browser (and other apps) honest about some of it's privacy guarantees by not affording it any persistent storage between sessions.
btown 2y ago
For one, OCR’ing the word Incognito from the screen?
- Terr_ 2y ago
  So I just add a new custom toolbar to the bottom of the screen titled "Incognito" so that the text is always there, and suddenly nothing's being recorded anymore? :P On one level that's convenient, but on the other hand I'm not sure it's a very robust design.
- oefrha 2y ago
  That only works if you have the "New Incognito Tab" page active. Not when you're actually browsing something.
  - chuckadams 2y ago
    There's also the profile button at the top right, just to the left of the hamburger menu, that says "Incognito" on it.
    - oefrha 2y ago
      Yeah I forgot about that.
  - deleted 2y ago
    [deleted]
- gitgud 2y ago
  What if it’s fullscreen? What if the title bar of the window is off the screen? A better solution would be to just pause the screen capture whenever incognito is open anywhere
CuriousCosmic 2y ago
While they seem to be adding an API for it, if you wanted you could just add a "block screenshots" API. This is already basically in place with DRM since the windows screenshot utility won't screencap most DRMed content on win apps like netflix or even on firefox nowadays. What MS is adding on top of this is an API to check which tabs/web pages are visible and selectively black out web pages that are added to a given user level blacklist.

How would this system know chrome was running incognito?

kccqzy 2y ago

Develop an API in Windows. Contribute to the Chromium codebase to use this API.

willcipriano 2y ago
We already have "Launch as Administrator" add "Launch in private mode"
- reverius42 2y ago
  So now the user has to remember to not only open a private window or tab in their browser, but also open the whole browser in private mode?
  - willcipriano 2y ago
    If you want to be really consumer focused, the OS could keep the browser (and other apps) honest about some of it's privacy guarantees by not affording it any persistent storage between sessions.

btown 2y ago

For one, OCR’ing the word Incognito from the screen?

Terr_ 2y ago
So I just add a new custom toolbar to the bottom of the screen titled "Incognito" so that the text is always there, and suddenly nothing's being recorded anymore? :P On one level that's convenient, but on the other hand I'm not sure it's a very robust design.
oefrha 2y ago
That only works if you have the "New Incognito Tab" page active. Not when you're actually browsing something.
- chuckadams 2y ago
  There's also the profile button at the top right, just to the left of the hamburger menu, that says "Incognito" on it.
  - oefrha 2y ago
    Yeah I forgot about that.
- deleted 2y ago
  [deleted]
gitgud 2y ago
What if it’s fullscreen? What if the title bar of the window is off the screen? A better solution would be to just pause the screen capture whenever incognito is open anywhere

CuriousCosmic 2y ago

While they seem to be adding an API for it, if you wanted you could just add a "block screenshots" API. This is already basically in place with DRM since the windows screenshot utility won't screencap most DRMed content on win apps like netflix or even on firefox nowadays. What MS is adding on top of this is an API to check which tabs/web pages are visible and selectively black out web pages that are added to a given user level blacklist.