Having the option to switch over to Chrome’s incognito mode at any time is comforting for many users, but it isn’t a foolproof tool. While you may value your privacy, not all web developers do, and as many of them point out on Stack Overflow, it’s surprisingly easy to find out when a visitor is browsing one of their sites in an incognito window. Some of those sites even go so far as to block incognito users altogether, as they can’t track them and deliver them ads, thus making them less valuable. But Google appears to be fighting back against this.
Spotted by 9to5Google last week, a series of recent commits to Chrome’s source code suggest that the browser will create a virtual FileSystem API (which is disabled while in incognito mode) and trick websites into thinking the API is operating normally, taking away the workaround many sites were using to detect incognito users.
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