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Wow, the incognito mode blocking is something I've never seen before. Disgusting. Hopefully Google corrects the bug which they are using to discover the incognito mode status.

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They are working on that actually, planned to be in Chrome 74 and then enabled by default in Chrome 76.

Interesting. Here's an article describing the changes: https://9to5google.com/2019/02/15/google-chrome-detect-incog...

They are also able to detect private mode in FireFox

I was able to eventually get past it using ABP by adding rules to block https://courier-api.dallasnews.com/v1/paywall/* and www.dallasnews.com###courier-iframe

I'm sure Google appreciates the protection of their advertising revenue.

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