Chrome Will Have New Features That Prevent Websites from Discovering Incognito Mode

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Understanding Chrome Will Have New Features That Prevent Websites from Discovering

Google integrates Incognito mode on Chrome to help improve the security of web surfing of users, preventing third parties from tracking to show users' search-based ads.

Basically, the FileSystem API will store data when users surf the web in normal mode. When Incognito mode is turned on, the FileSystem API will automatically be disabled to make sure that all 'traces' of a user's web browser are not saved.

Therefore, websites that only need to monitor whether the FileSystem API is enabled or not can know whether the user is accessing under incognito mode.

Google has known this for a long time and, recently in an interview with 9to5Google, the company said it has found a way to cure the "disease". Specifically, when surfing the web in Hidden RAM the system will create a virtual data system. This means that the FileSystem API will always appear. This will prevent websites from being able to detect whether users are using Incognito mode.

Even, Google wants to eliminate the FileSystem API completely, but first they want to check whether this new method is really effective in preventing third parties from "circumventing".