On Friday 15 May 2009 16:24:53 Zero3 wrote: > Colin Davis skrev: > > The most reliable way to detect incognito mode is to use the CSS detect > > trick. > > If we can detect their CSS links followed, they are not in privacy mode. > > http://crypto.stanford.edu/~collinj/research/incognito/ > > -CPD > > It wouldn't be a bad idea to do such a check automatically! And if > failing, warn the user and recommend him to switch to incognito mode (or > a browser which supports it).
Except that there isn't a released version of Firefox that supports it yet. My main concern is that they may switch incognito mode off: when do we check, exactly? I'm assuming that once you have switched "privacy mode" off, websites can't probe links you've visited when it was enabled. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090515/24cbb91a/attachment.pgp>
