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Chrome's private browsing is broken

This defeats the purpose of Incognito. If any website is able to tell you're browsing in private mode, then the browser is leaking data that shows it's not private

@cypnk I wonder *how* they notice it. Also, does it work in Firefox?

@rysiek It seems to work in FF. I have no-script installed and settings to forget all cookies on exit. Which I guess is a roundabout way to get "Incognito"

@cypnk there's a private browsing mode in FF too. What I wonder is if this site detects FF private mode too.

@rysiek Yup. It does. It only happens when I enable JavaScript so Firefox is leaking incognito mode info as well

@cypnk right, so they're using JavaScript to detect this? Interesting.

@rysiek Yeah. Something either failing in adblocking (I have uBlock Origin) or there's a secondary route that's causing the browser itself to leak the status

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maybe they just check if you have any tracking cookies, and if you don't, then you're probably using private mode.