However, if you’re willing to take the risk or trust the website, go ahead. There is a risk here that the website you’re trying to visit has been hacked and will serve malware. Select that to create an unencrypted connection. Select Advanced on the error page and you should see a link to Proceed to the website.
If you know the website and trust it, you can ignore Chrome’s warnings. If you got this far and you cannot access the website without the warning, can ignore it if you like.
Select Clear Browsing Data and select everything. Select Advanced at the bottom of the page. If it does work, let’s clear the Chrome cache. If it works this time, it could be a Chrome extension or cached data causing the issue. Visit the website giving you ‘Your connection is not private’ errors and see what happens. It took programmers under a week after the Chrome 76 release to discover what was happening, and develop scripts that probed the FileSystem API to determine the amount of storage space a website could access, and indirectly detect if the user was using incognito mode or not.Right click your Chrome icon and select New Incognito Window. Google didn’t fully activate the FileSystem API, but merely set up a hard limit to the amount of storage space that incognito mode windows could access, at 120 MB. With Chrome 76, Google activated the FileSystem API for incognito mode windows making previous detection scripts useless. Chrome 76, released in July 2019, included an update that blocked websites from using the FileSystem API to detect if a user was using Chrome’s normal browsing mode or its incognito mode.īefore Chrome 76, the FileSystem API was simply not available in incognito mode, and website operators only had to query this API to find out if a user was using incognito mode. In early 2019, Google decided to take a stance against such scripts. In addition, current incognito (private browsing) modes in most browsers today also ship with aggressive anti-tracking features that block websites from tracking and fully monetizing their traffic.īoth issues - and the inherent use of private browsing - result in direct financial losses to websites and the primary reasons why scripts that detect incognito modes have become popular in recent years. According to the developers, the location of this feature could change in the future. Chrome remembers the zoom of each page when you reopen the browser, just as it works on the desktop version. The Independent published this article on Tuesday explaining that 'incognito' misleads users into thinking their data is protected. The new 'Page zoom' feature already works in Chrome Canary for Android and can be enabled with this flag: Flag. There are several reasons why website operators like to block incognito mode users.įor example, some users employ incognito mode to bypass content paywalls and various content filters/limiters. Incognito Mode in Google Chrome, despite its name, isn't really 'incognito' at all.
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