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by zknz 2548 days ago
NYT knows i am in private mode - how is it figuring that out?
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catfood 2548 days ago
A bunch of different ways probably. This method is stolen from SO (works for Chrome):

const detect = () => { var fs = window.RequestFileSystem || window.webkitRequestFileSystem; if (!fs) { console.log("FS check failed.."); return; } fs(window.TEMPORARY, 100, function (fs) {}, function (err) { console.log("Incognito"); }); };

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tyingq 2548 days ago
chrome://flags/, as of Chrome 74, has a setting "Filesystem API in Incognito". Enable that and this way of detecting incognito stops working.
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