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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 Unfortunately it's fairly easy to detect private browsing in all major browsers. E.g. here's how the Boston Globe does it: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.

This is definitely something browsers ought to fix, but it's tricky because of how you need to handle certain types of storage in private mode (localStorage, IndexedDB, etc.).

always coming home @nightpool

@nolan @cypnk also at some point you actually have to implement statistical normalization. No plugins installed at all? probably in private browsing. etc, etc.

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@nightpool @nolan Curious thing is that I had uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, and HTTPS Everywhere enabled in private browsing. That's the same list as my regular browsing