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
> If you don’t want Google Chrome to remember your activity, you can browse the web privately in Incognito mode.
From the Google Chrome help: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95464
So, if I understand it correctly, it's not broken, it's working the way it has been designed to. As is the Private browsing of Firefox.
@igor Chrome not remembering your browsing history doesn’t automatically follow that the site you’re visiting should know you’re browsing incognito
If I’m not telling my taxi driver what i plan to do at a destination, it doesn’t mean the driver can yell out “hey this guy won’t tell me what he’s gonna do at your place!” once I get there
It’s a terrible design that’s purposely misleading, and harmful, if it’s intended
@igor @cypnk Maybe of interest: https://panopticlick.eff.org, from a few years ago. The results table gives an overview of how significant the sources are.
@elomatreb @igor The culprit appears to be using ajax.googleapis.com as proven by @Skoll3
And it’s a problem over Tor too
@cypnk Oh I didn't even notice how old the thread was, sorry
@elomatreb No worries. I boosted it because it’s still a problem and I wanted to make sure people knew about it
@cypnk @igor It is not intended. It's just hard to prevent leaks like that, browsers leak identifying information/fingerprint data everywhere (simply due to the complexity of the platform)