WhoRoger@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 years agoWebsites telling me what I can do with my own browser so they can have their pointless cookieslemmy.worldimagemessage-square80fedilinkarrow-up1179arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1174arrow-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-22 years agomessage-square80fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareWhoRoger@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·2 years agoI’ll look into that. I believe web sites shouldn’t have any way to detect private mode, right?
minus-squareEavolution@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years 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-up4arrow-down1·2 years agoWriting a cookie and reading it back should work just fine even in incognito mode. It just gets deleted once incognito is closed.
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.