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SevereLow ,

Cookies are not evil per se... but data mining companies made them like that.

I'm administrating an online store and cookies are responsible for the customer's cart, plus their user session / logged in state.

As an admin I adhere to the "golden rule", thus there are no creepy trackers on store. I don't like them and I don't want customers to face the same thing on websites that I manage.

That said, cookies are needed for user session & fraud protection. Instead of nuking cookies we shall kick the trackers out.

nieceandtows ,

It kind of makes sense for strawpoll, because without some sort of cookies, they wouldn’t know if the same person is voting multiple times. But they should say something like ‘incognito mode makes the votes inaccurate, please visit on normal mode’

Draconic_NEO ,
@Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world avatar

There’s an extension that allows you to hide incognito mode from websites called Hide Private Mode I’m not sure why browsers don’t do this by default (maybe it’s some funny compliance thing) it would greatly improve privacy.

PumpedSardines ,
@PumpedSardines@lemmy.world avatar

I feel like for straw poll it’s more valid, they probably do it to try and avoid people voting more than once.

quinten ,
@quinten@lemmy.world avatar

“One vote per IP-address” - So they already tackled the problem that people can vote more then once.

Straight-up asshole design.

chagall ,

Let Mozilla know by filing a report on Webcompat.

WhoRoger OP ,
@WhoRoger@lemmy.world avatar

I’ll look into that. I believe web sites shouldn’t have any way to detect private mode, right?

Eavolution ,
@Eavolution@kbin.social avatar

I wonder if it tries to save a cookie then read it back? I don't really know how any of this works but that sounds like a way to detect it that's fairly infallible.

curiosityLynx ,

Writing a cookie and reading it back should work just fine even in incognito mode. It just gets deleted once incognito is closed.

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