- From: Scott Hess <shess@google.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 22:31:47 -0700
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Brady Eidson <beidson at apple.com> wrote: > On Apr 7, 2009, at 6:19 PM, Ian Fette (????????) wrote: >> I think that doing option 3, and perhaps providing a way for the app to >> know that we're in this mode so it can do whatever is appropriate (saving to >> the cloud more frequently, just not using localstorage all together, >> whatever is right for that app) solves those problems. > > I agree it is valuable for a page to know this mode is in effect, and it > would be important for plug-ins as well which is why it's being discussed on > some plug-ins lists. Everyone is free to implement their privacy mode as they see fit, but if apps can trivially tell they are in incognito mode, as opposed to running on a constrained environment (low quota, etc), then I think that sort of defeats the purpose. I don't want apps refusing to operate because they detect incognito mode, incognito is about _me_ not trusting _them_, not them deciding that I can't be trusted because I'm acting shifty. When in incognito mode, well-behaved apps should already prompt you before throwing huge amounts of data at you, just like they would if you visited from a fresh browser install, so I think that's mostly a non-issue. -scott
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