{"id":26241,"date":"2019-08-12T17:08:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T21:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=26241"},"modified":"2019-08-12T17:08:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T21:08:20","slug":"google-chrome-incognito-mode-can-still-be-detected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/12\/google-chrome-incognito-mode-can-still-be-detected\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/google\/google-chrome-incognito-mode-can-still-be-detected-by-these-methods\/\">Lawrence Abrams<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/google\/google-chrome-incognito-mode-can-still-be-detected-by-these-methods\/\">\n<p>With the release of Chrome 76, Google fixed a loophole that allowed&nbsp;web sites to detect if a visitor was using Incognito mode.&nbsp; Unfortunately, their fix led to two other methods that can still be used to detect when a visitor is browsing privately.<\/p>\n<p>Some web sites were using Incognito mode detection in order to prevent users from bypassing paywalls or to give private browsing users a different browsing experience.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>When Google made it so that Incognito mode uses a temporary filesystem using the computer's RAM, it opened up a new method of detecting it based on the amount of storage set aside for the internal filesystem used by the browser.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>As Chrome switched to a memory filesystem in Incognito mode, it is now possible to detect private browsing by measuring the speed of writing to the filesystem.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Abrams: With the release of Chrome 76, Google fixed a loophole that allowed&nbsp;web sites to detect if a visitor was using Incognito mode.&nbsp; Unfortunately, their fix led to two other methods that can still be used to detect when a visitor is browsing privately. Some web sites were using Incognito mode detection in order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-08-12T21:08:23Z","apple_news_api_id":"5a5056b5-827f-4ca8-8c44-dc28473f0c62","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-08-12T21:08:25Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AWlBWtYJ_TKiMRNwoRz8MYg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[456,30,32,1609,96],"class_list":["post-26241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-googlechrome","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-10-14","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26242,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26241\/revisions\/26242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}