Chrome wants to prevent websites from detecting that you're using "Incognito Mode" with a feature already available in Chrome Canary

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Google prepares changes to its Chrome browser for the coming weeks. Improvements in Incognito Mode, which we can access if we press the three buttons (the famous hamburger menu) located in the upper right area of ​​the screen. "

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For those who don&39;t know, the incognito mode allows us to prevent Google Chrome from saving information about the websites we access. No information about web browsing is stored locally, although this does not prevent Internet servers from accessing information related to our ISP and other data about web portals that we visit.A mode that was not entirely reliable, as the Chrome file system APIs allowed websites to know that we were using that mode."

Now available in Canary

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And that is what Google wants to fix in a future revision of Chrome Google wants to prevent different web pages from having access to that information to find out if we are using incognito mode and for this they are already working on a way to avoid it."

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An improvement that would arrive with the next update of Google Chrome, in version 75 Once we have it installed, the websites that now they can determine if we are using incognito mode they will be totally blind. Users accessing a website anonymously cannot be detected."

Google Chrome, which is currently on version 74.0.3729.75 If we talk about the general version, it will release a function that is already available, as expected, in the test version, that is, the Canary version. In fact, this improvement can be tested by following these steps in the test version of Chrome:

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• We open Chrome Canary and in the search bar we write chrome://flags (without the quotes). "
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• We are looking for the order Filesystem API in Incognito for which we can use the search box."

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• We place in Enabled the position of the box in the Filesystem API in Incognito command"
• We restart Chrome Canary.

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To check the result, we can visit this web portal and if everything went well we will see a message on the screen stating that Incognito Mode is not detected ."

This function shouldn't take long to reach the general version of Chrome and who knows if Microsoft also decides to incorporate it into the new Edgeespecially now that you're starting to experience the full potential of the new Chromium engine

Source | Techdows