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Re:The world needs more search engines by jefftk on Sunday December 01, 2019 @01:46PM (#21677074)
Are you talking about the browser's autocomplete? That's not something servers can detect unless you interact with it. Or do you mean something else?
Re:The world needs more search engines by hiccuphippo on Sunday December 01, 2019 @02:38PM (#21677365)
No. On login Google shows you your email address so you can click on it and only fill the password. Which means it knows you were logged in on that browser previously.
Re:The world needs more search engines by jefftk on Sunday December 01, 2019 @02:52PM (#21677440)
That shouldn't be possible in private browsing, unless you've previously logged into Google in that same private session.

One way you could see something similar to this would be if you opened a clean session, logged into Google, logged out of Google, thought you closed the last incognito window but didn't, and then opened a new incognito window? Then the user cookie would still be in client-side storage

Re:The world needs more search engines by leni536 on Sunday December 01, 2019 @02:48PM (#21677419)
It knows that one from cookies, not applicable to incognito mode. Google probably does some other fingerprinting as well though.