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by crazygringo 2510 days ago
Just curious... does anyone know what the main workaround sites were using to detect incognito?

And if there are other likely ones the sites will be able to fall back to?
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woogley 2510 days ago
TFA links to this in the first sentence: https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/google-news-ini...

Basically, attempting to use FileSystem API but getting an Error === Incognito

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bananaoomarang 2510 days ago
Not 100% sure but I think it is something to do with being able to write to localstorage (e.g. if the site figures it can't write there then it is in Incognito). I read it was something like that.
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