Google Chrome 75 will disable websites from detecting Incognito mode

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Me want this in Firefox Focus (my default mobile browser these days).

Maybe I'll check the road map / feature requests and see if there's any movement in this direction.

I wonder whether there's any real, tangible benefit of using incognito mode. Does it do anything more than clean your cookies after each session?

I use it all the time. The easiest example is when I am developing something and am logged in as Admin into web interface and then want to check how it works as a non-logged-in user. Or as multiple sequential logins. Sometimes it is faster to close and reopen incognito than logout/re-login.

Or check the newspaper article I don't want linked into whatever is normally tracking me.

Ironically I use it as a Chromium/Chrome developer to check whether certain documents are visible to users outside of Google, as a way to determine what information is internal-only.

This.. in a way.. is Google cornering the market on surveillance

I would be able to stream DRM content (e.g Netflix)?

So can I now watch Netflix on incognito?

But... Why? To use netflix, you have to log in anyways; they track you regardless of incognito..?

Sure, but I may not want others (e.g. other analytics) to know that I am watching Netflix. Let it be in its own container.

Somewhat useful for shared machines

Big, big fan of this update. Finally!

Finally

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