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Updated Chrome will not allow sites to spy on users


For modern users, privacy inInternet plays a significant role, however, some resources impose restrictions on the work in the "incognito" mode. In the near future, Google’s Chrome browser will prevent sites from recognizing and not allowing access to a resource for users working in the selected mode.

Incognito mode allows not to save historyvisited sites and at the same time does not allow tracking user activity using cookies. The lion's share of sites now lives by advertising other resources, which requires tracking of user activity. Such sites do not allow free access when the "incognito" mode is on.

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Incognito automatically enableddisables the FileSystem API, which creates permanent files. Therefore, the sites, if it is detected that the FileSystem API mode is disabled, understand that the user is working in incognito mode and denies access to them. But starting with the version of Chrome 74, changes will be made in the browser code, deceiving sites when requesting the operation of the FileSystem API. A virtual file system will be created in the RAM, which will be deleted when the session is closed in incognito mode.


However, in the future, the FileSystem API will be removed fromChrome doesn’t, because Google doesn’t see any real use for it, except for the “calculation” of users working in incognito mode. The official release of Chrome 74 is expected to take place in April 2019.

Source: softpedia.com