Bloomberg Joins The New York Times in Detecting Chrome's Incognito Mode

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20915286
by sawaruna • 7 years ago
15 9 7 years ago

see: https://i.imgur.com/MSGQbIm.png

In August some (e.g. [1],[2]) were writing about sites detecting private browsing, specifically the NYT, in order to block people who were using Incognito mode in Chrome to get around free article limits. Looks like Bloomberg now has this feature active as well.

[1] https://9to5google.com/2019/08/09/new-york-times-detect-incognito-chrome-76/

[2] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chrome-incognito-mode-can-still-be-detected-by-these-methods/

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