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Comment by sAbakumoff | Hacker News Reader

I just hate that this web-site demands to exit incognito mode or log in in order to read the article.

I hate it, too. In any case, if the incognito mode can be detected, it's a bug in the browser. Way to go, Google.

Slightly surprising that Google Chrome is bringing up the back of the pack when it comes to incognito mode, Firefox and Safari can both view this site without the popup complaining about using incognito mode.

Not defending Chrome, but if websites are willingly blocking users carrying about their privacy, then maybe you shouldn't read those websites.

Paying with your wallet or your eyeballs works. Most of the time reading such articles is a time waste anyway.

One doesn't exclude the other. I'm going to let the website owner know, but at the same time I'd expect the browser vendors to take greater care about protecting the private mode.

Maybe the site developers simply didn't care about detecting the mode in other browsers.

> Slightly surprising that Google Chrome is bringing up the back of the pack

Actually that's quite opposite to surprising in this case - tracking users and their behaviors is googles bread and butter so this is probably feature, not a bug

Apparently private browsing is pretty easy to detect in any browser:

> Also yes, in case you didn't know, there's lots of ways to detect private browsing using JavaScript. It's kinda dumb that browsers don't work harder to make it imperceptible.

https://toot.cafe/@nolan/101189400134875073

Works for me in Safari. What browser are you using?

Works in firefox as well, but in chrome:

https://i.imgur.com/KTN1Jnf.png

Perhaps turn off Javascript? I use a nice little JS toggle plugin in Firefox for that, and apparently I disabled JS for this site in the past, which is a sign they tried some BS when I last visited (and the site functioned fine without JS) :P

Even worse, on Chrome mobile, the bottom section is cut off and unscrollable.

I'm guessing it's to stop the soft paywall workaround of opening in incognito?

I'm using Brave

Brave is based on Chromium, how are they able to claim "loads major news sites 2 to 8 times faster than Chrome/Safari on mobile and 2 times faster than Chrome on desktop"?

Just simply by running an adblocker?

That's a good question...I don't care about the performance of a browser because nowadays everything loads instantly anyways. Brave has built in anti-ad features, also can operate in TOR mode and that's pretty much the only reason of why I'm using it.

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