Timeline for Can web sites detect whether you are using private browsing mode?
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 9:49 | history | edited | CommunityBot | Commonmark migration | |
| Mar 27, 2020 at 21:23 | answer | added | mti2935 | timeline score: 3 | |
| S Jun 19, 2019 at 21:03 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
| S Jun 19, 2019 at 21:03 | history | notice removed | CommunityBot | ||
| Jun 12, 2019 at 20:14 | answer | added | user10216038 | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jun 12, 2019 at 18:30 | answer | added | reed | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 19:24 | comment | added | gparyani | @BenCrowell I started a bounty on this question. | |
| S Jun 11, 2019 at 19:22 | history | bounty started | gparyani | ||
| S Jun 11, 2019 at 19:22 | history | notice added | gparyani | Current answers are outdated | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 15:40 | comment | added | user51881 | It would be helpful to have answers with more up to date information. I think the situation has changed quite a bit since this question was asked in 2011. Now, in 2019, it seems pretty standard for newspaper web sites to refuse access if they detect/think you're in private mode. So it may just be a heuristic, but it's no longer hypothetical, it's in common use. I would have liked to offer a bounty for a more recent answer, but apparently the SE software won't let me offer even a small bounty because my rep is only 244. | |
| Jul 3, 2018 at 14:14 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| May 26, 2015 at 17:55 | comment | added | racec0ndition | If the end goal is to track users, regardless of normal or incognito mode, this might be helpful: radicalresearch.co.uk/lab/hstssupercookies | |
| Jun 8, 2014 at 2:20 | answer | added | D.W. | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 23, 2014 at 11:32 | comment | added | BlueCacti | I'm quite intrested in this. I have configured my browser (Chrome) to delete all userdata when I close it (i.e. cookies, form data (which I don't save anyway), sessions, ...). So I need to re-login every time I closed my browser. I wonder if this would create a false positive for Icognito Modus scanning methods. I also use Incognito quite often when visiting torrents sites and other sites I expect to encounter malware/adware/... I'd also like to know wether some extensions can leak this info, they are not enabled in Incognito Mode tho' (AdBlock+, DoNotTrackMe, HTTPS Everywhere, ...) | |
| May 22, 2014 at 19:23 | comment | added | pseudon | Some additional information here: apple.stackexchange.com/questions/131587/… Notably, that specific to Safari under Mavericks, Private Browsing mode does not send requests for favicons, so this could be a vector for discovering whether P.B. is on. | |
| May 13, 2014 at 20:48 | answer | added | EricLaw | timeline score: 8 | |
| Nov 29, 2011 at 1:31 | vote | accept | D.W. | ||
| Nov 28, 2011 at 20:58 | answer | added | bstpierre | timeline score: 32 | |
| Nov 19, 2011 at 17:09 | comment | added | curiousguy | "The background research I've done." +1 The question itself is worth reading. Thank you. | |
| Nov 19, 2011 at 12:33 | comment | added | bstpierre | What's the end goal? What can the website achieve by detecting private browsing mode? Which aspect of private browsing is important to you -- cookies, history, cache, etc? What's the difference between private browsing and, say, a throwaway firefox profile? Or using privoxy set to nuke all cookies? | |
| Nov 19, 2011 at 8:21 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSecurity/status/137807654042075137 | ||
| Nov 19, 2011 at 5:13 | history | edited | D.W. | CC BY-SA 3.0 | elaborate to make clear that I'm not claiming detecting whether logged into Facebook is a good way to check for private browsing mode |
| Nov 19, 2011 at 4:02 | answer | added | Sonny Ordell | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 19, 2011 at 3:08 | history | asked | D.W. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |