Something on Mars Is Producing Gas Usually Made by Living Things on Earth

Re:Something on Mars Is Producing Gas Usually Made by Living... by novaRom on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @05:51AM (#19552458)

I cannot read this article because of: "You're in private mode. Log in or create a free New York Times account to continue reading in private mode".

How NYTimes knows I am in private mode?

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Re:Something on Mars Is Producing Gas Usually Made by Living... by karmakaze on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @06:45AM (#19552711)

Googling "detect incognito stackoverflow" finds a question answered "The FileSystem API is disabled in incognito mode."

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Re:Something on Mars Is Producing Gas Usually Made by Living... by mcv on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @07:39AM (#19552995)

Maybe they shouldn't disable it, but simply fake it.

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Re:Something on Mars Is Producing Gas Usually Made by Living... by munk-a on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @01:00PM (#19556279)

Now that people are using it to detect incognito mode they probably should...

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Re:Something on Mars Is Producing Gas Usually Made by Living... by vinniejames on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @01:02PM (#19556297)

They plan to deprecate it

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Re:Something on Mars Is Producing Gas Usually Made by Living... by MisterTea on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @10:36AM (#19554506)

A minimalist browser that ignores everything but the most basic of html works just fine.

I visited using mothra on 9front and was able to view the full article including images with no nag screen or articles remaining nonsense. It doesn't render perfectly but is completely readable. Just text and images with no other fluff to get in the way. I miss the old web.

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Re:Something on Mars Is Producing Gas Usually Made by Living... by wanone on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @06:21AM (#19552595)

Worked for me in Firefox private browsing

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Re:Something on Mars Is Producing Gas Usually Made by Living... by sebazzz on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @10:53AM (#19554705)

Firefox may be leveraging container functionality for private mode. Firefox containers are fully functional isolated containers of data where regular browser features function like expected.

Even if it doesn't, the Firefox temporary containers add-on would help.

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Re:Something on Mars Is Producing Gas Usually Made by Living... by gibybo on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @06:29AM (#19552627)

Also worked for me in Chrome's incognito

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Re:Something on Mars Is Producing Gas Usually Made by Living... by throwaway8129 on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @06:37AM (#19552670)

They are A/B testing it, or rolling it out slowly. I saw reports a few weeks ago, but didn't get hit with it myself until today.

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Re:Something on Mars Is Producing Gas Usually Made by Living... by sct202 on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @01:45PM (#19556709)

Whatever they're doing generates a weird reaction in Edge on my computer, where I get the private mode warning in normal Edge and no warning in inPrivate Edge.

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Re:Something on Mars Is Producing Gas Usually Made by Living... by cs02rm0 on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @06:30AM (#19552633)

A quick look suggests it might be trying to do something with geolocation.

I didn't get the message in Chrome.

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Re:Something on Mars Is Producing Gas Usually Made by Living... by shrimp_emoji on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @12:51PM (#19556178)

NoScript = no problems

Well, not the one you're mentioning.

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Re:Something on Mars Is Producing Gas Usually Made by Living... by jakeogh on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @08:38PM (#19559874)

Works fine without JS.

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Re:Something on Mars Is Producing Gas Usually Made by Living... by ForHackernews on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @05:58AM (#19552478)

No cookies? Access to local storage disabled?

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