WhoRoger@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agoWebsites telling me what I can do with my own browser so they can have their pointless cookieslemmy.worldimagemessage-square93fedilinkarrow-up1303arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1297arrow-down1imageWebsites telling me what I can do with my own browser so they can have their pointless cookieslemmy.worldWhoRoger@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square93fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareEavolution@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoI wonder if it tries to save a cookie then read it back? I don’t really know how any of this works but that sounds like a way to detect it that’s fairly infallible.
minus-squarecuriosityLynx@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoWriting a cookie and reading it back should work just fine even in incognito mode. It just gets deleted once incognito is closed.
minus-squareIcaruslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI think localstorage is not accessible from incognito mode, they might be using that
I wonder if it tries to save a cookie then read it back? I don’t really know how any of this works but that sounds like a way to detect it that’s fairly infallible.
Writing a cookie and reading it back should work just fine even in incognito mode. It just gets deleted once incognito is closed.
I think localstorage is not accessible from incognito mode, they might be using that