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 @alyx Brave browser changes what ads you see, not sure it prevents ad-network malware delivery.
If you're blocking 3rd-party cookies, which breaks almost nothing, fingerprinting should be basically restricted to the site you visit. If they're pushing that function to third parties, then not even that.
As for attack surface, I suspect the couple of add-ons that otherwise drastically reduce the attack surface for compromised content delivery are always going to be a net win.
