Google Chrome will allow incognito mode on any web page

Google is about to close a major loophole that allowed companies to know if users were using Google Chrome's incognito mode. Supposedly, this incognito mode allows the user to access the websites without leaving a trace. But, according to 9to5Google, the company is already solving one of its most serious problems that did not allow it to do this correctly.

Developers using this security flaw could know when users were in incognito modeThat way, by detecting this mode, they could block the content and force them out of it in order to view it. The solution is quite simple and Google developers are already working on it.

How will Google prevent developers from blocking content?

The solution is very easy to carry out. Chrome will disable the FileSystem API when users are in incognito mode. In this way, the websites will not be able to check if the user is using this navigation mode or not. To prevent developers from noticing this, they will create a virtual file in RAM, hiding the missing web sites. However, this will not be the only change to Chrome, the developers are looking to completely remove this file from the application.

Incognito mode should allow users to browse the Internet privately, preventing websites from collecting browsing data.Incognito mode does a lot of things, including allowing advertisers to bypass cookies to bombard us with ads or limit the amount of articles we read on websites with subscriptions. In case you didn't know, even YouTube has an incognito mode.

There are many websites that used this trick to detect when someone was using incognito mode, blocking the user from choosing to pay the subscription to the website. Google has confirmed that this fix will be available in Chrome beta 74. However, it won't be until Chrome version 76 that we find the fix in the final version of the app. This is the version that you download directly from Google Play, without being a beta tester.