Chrome's private browsing is broken

This defeats the purpose of Incognito. If any website is able to tell you're browsing in private mode, then the browser is leaking data that shows it's not private

Here's the article I was viewing. No, I will not turn off private browsing for any reason. I'll avoid visiting your site if I have to https://archive.fo/2GDSE

@cypnk i have never used these modes

i have wondered how they differ from my normal FF setup running anti-tracking (privacybadger), extensive adblocking (ublock origin), and manual cookie whitelisting (denies cookie by default)?

i know incognito mode deletes history when you quit...

@alyx The number of plugins you have also increases your attack surface. uBlock and Privacy Badger are brought to you by the Good Guys(tm), but they still add to the risk that one of these can be compromised at some point

Ideally, the browser itself will have this functionality built in, but with the exception of "Brave" browser, I don't know of any others that do

@cypnk re-reading your comment i don't think you were exclusively referring to the fingerprint issue re: increased attack surface

to that point, i wonder how FF's massive add-on infrastructure revamp will affect size of attack surface. i don't know about that.

@alyx I don't use FF for casual browsing these days; Only dev work so I do need quite a few plugins

In Chrome these are currently installed:
uBlock Origin
Privacy Badger
HTTPS Everywhere and
Disable HTML5 Autoplay