Is Blink aware of weather the tab is incognito or not ?

sata...@samsung.com

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Jan 8, 2015, 1:13:37 PM1/8/15

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Hi,

Is blink aware of weather the tab is incognito or not ? any api available ?

thanks

James Robinson

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Jan 8, 2015, 1:14:50 PM1/8/15

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No and no.

Elliott Sprehn

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Jan 8, 2015, 1:15:19 PM1/8/15

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Why would you want to know this inside blink?

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:13 AM, <sata...@samsung.com> wrote:

Peter Beverloo

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Jan 8, 2015, 1:21:29 PM1/8/15

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To give slightly more context, the idea is that APIs should not behave differently (aside from persistence of data) if the browser is in incognito mode, making it hard to detect from the website's POV.

Giving Blink access to this information is very likely to be incompatible with that idea.

Thanks,

Peter

Darin Fisher

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Jan 8, 2015, 1:25:22 PM1/8/15

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... and the main motivation for that is so that websites "function" in an incognito session without web developers having to do additional work to support incognito mode.

-Darin

Paweł Hajdan, Jr.

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Jan 9, 2015, 6:48:24 AM1/9/15

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Just in case this would help, what are you trying to do? There might be other ways to accomplish that, without exposing incognito status to the web.

Paweł

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