Extensions setting UI should have an additional choice to be able to enable an extension only for incognito mode
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Dec 3 2016
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2850.0 Iron Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. desire to not be tracked and profiled for activities by online companies 2. install privacy enhancing addons 3. enter incognito mode What is the expected behavior? 1. enable installed addons for incognito mode as well 2. have the choice to make some addons available only in incognito mode What went wrong? two results happen: 1. installed extensions are NOT enabled by default for incognito mode 2. there is no UI setting to be able to enable some extensions only for incognito mode WebStore page: no specific addon - the issue is with chrome itself Did this work before? No Chrome version: 57.0.2939.0 Channel: canary OS Version: 8.1 Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 23.0 r0 the incognito mode offers little protection against increased online invasion of privacy: a myriad of techniques such as tracking pixels, html canvas, user agent, font enumeration, javascript scripting can uniquely identify an user even in incognito mode. the only effect incognito mode achieves in todays' internet is suppresion of browsing history from local computer. current browser behaviour does nothing to help innocents against these kinds of privacy violation. they are "incognito" only in relation with the ones whith whom they are sharing the computing device, they are no longer "incognito" in relation with the internet. to increase protection user has to install privacy-enhacing extensions, but has no control wether to have an extension enabled only in incognito mode and, to make this worse, by default extensions are not enabled for incognito mode. when searching for similar issues before reporting, the search form offered me these filters. someone should add them maybe? component:Platform>Extensions component:UI>Browser>Incognito
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Dec 9 2016
> What went wrong? > 1. installed extensions are NOT enabled by default for incognito mode This is by design, and is unlikely to change. If you want extensions enabled in incognito, you can toggle them from the chrome://extensions page. > 2. there is no UI setting to be able to enable some extensions only for incognito mode True, but this is a pretty uncommon request and without a larger demand, Chrome is unlikely to devote the UI necessary to explain these states to the user. Incognito mode is usually the normal profile minus some stuff, but doesn't really ever add additional stuff. For your use case, is there a reason you can't just have two separate profiles? E.g. your default profile has one set of extensions, and a second profile has the second set? (possibly with them enabled or disabled for incognito use as you desire.)
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Dec 9 2016
[Marking as Available to get out of triage queue]
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Dec 11 2017
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Dec 15 2017
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Sep 13
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Comment 1 by hdodda@chromium.org
, Dec 5 2016Labels: -Type-Bug M-57 Type-Feature
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)