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Status: Duplicate
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Closed: Nov 2016
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OS: Mac
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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window.webkitRequestFileSystem can be used to detect incognito mode

Reported by m.go...@gmail.com, Nov 9 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.87 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Open https://jsfiddle.net/Lj2fs5kr/ in regular mode & incognito mode
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What is the expected behavior?

What went wrong?
It shows "false" in regular mode and "true" in incognito mode. This allows the site to detect if the user uses the private mode and hide some content from them to discourage using this mode. I think the browser should hide such details so that sites are not able to apply such detection.

Did this work before? N/A 

Does this work in other browsers? N/A

Chrome version: 56.0.2914.0  Channel: canary
OS Version: OS X 10.12.1
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 23.0 r0
 
Components: Blink>FileAPI

Comment 2 by jsb...@chromium.org, Nov 10 2016

Mergedinto: 93417
Status: Duplicate (was: Unconfirmed)

Comment 3 by m.go...@gmail.com, Nov 10 2016

Bug 93417 is protected; is duplicating to it intended?
Components: Blink>Storage>FileAPI
Components: -Blink>FileAPI

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