WhoRoger@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agoWebsites telling me what I can do with my own browser so they can have their pointless cookieslemmy.worldimagemessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up1150arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1144arrow-down1imageWebsites telling me what I can do with my own browser so they can have their pointless cookieslemmy.worldWhoRoger@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square78fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareWhoRoger@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoI’ll look into that. I believe web sites shouldn’t have any way to detect private mode, right?
minus-squareEavolution@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI wonder if it tries to save a cookie then read it back? I don’t really know how any of this works but that sounds like a way to detect it that’s fairly infallible.
minus-squarecuriosityLynx@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoWriting a cookie and reading it back should work just fine even in incognito mode. It just gets deleted once incognito is closed.
minus-squareJuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoMaybe incognito enforces CSP more strictly.
I’ll look into that. I believe web sites shouldn’t have any way to detect private mode, right?
I wonder if it tries to save a cookie then read it back? I don’t really know how any of this works but that sounds like a way to detect it that’s fairly infallible.
Writing a cookie and reading it back should work just fine even in incognito mode. It just gets deleted once incognito is closed.
Maybe incognito enforces CSP more strictly.