Chrome's private browsing is broken
This defeats the purpose of Incognito. If any website is able to tell you're browsing in private mode, then the browser is leaking data that shows it's not private
@cypnk The same can be said of ad blocking. When a "deactivate your ad blocker" screen comes up it should be treated as a high-priority bug in the blocker.
@mattskala @cypnk Not a high priority. Adblockers are always detectable, and their primary function is not to be undetectable (unlike the virus/AV game.)
@mattskala @cypnk They have to be detectable because they interfere with the functioning of the page; they change what scripts are loaded, and it's trivial to discover that.
You can play a cat-and-mouse game and even go so far as to modify the site's Javascript to bypass the bits that notice the adblocker, but at that point you're deep into diminishing-returns territory.
@cypnk @mattskala Compare to things like anti-cheating code in games. It's a very high priority for the "cheating code" to remain undetected.
@mattskala @varx @cypnk The site necessarily needs to know whether the ads it wants to run are actually running, otherwise it could be held accountable for fraud.
@mattskala Absolutely! There are some mitigations in uBlock, but that too is a game of whack-a-mole by and large. I think the Anti Virus approach to ad-blocking isn't going to work. Signatures change too frequently