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If you're using Chrome 74+, you can set a flag that prevents sites from detecting that you're using Incognito mode.

Go to chrome://flags and enable "Filesystem API in Incognito". That's it! Sites won't know you're in Incognito anymore (until they find a new sneaky way).

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I have to use a specific web browser, and know to set a random flag, to enable a specific feature (which isn't part of any web specification yet), so that websites will know a lie about the local state of my web browser, and agree to serve me content?

This is worse than the "Best viewed in ___" days. This is not the web that I signed up to help develop.

Some psywalls will accept you if you mimic Google bot's UA.

(Accidental typo left in because it seems appropriate)

That worked for me! Thanks!

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