Google Proposes Fix to Incognito Mode Leak in Chrome

Google has announced a fix to a privacy problem with browsing Chrome in incognito mode. Chrome supports the FileSystem API in normal browsing mode. However, the FileSystem API is not supported in incognito mode. Accordingly, abusive sites detect whether or not a certain user is browsing in incognito mode simply by trying to use the FileSystem API. This created the privacy problem: an incognito mode leak.

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