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		Karawebnetwork on April 3, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain u... That's so stupid. There's nothing stopping anyone from browsing 3 articles and then clear the cookies...

m-p-3 on April 4, 2018 [–]

What's even more stupid is that it's even possible to detect you're browsing incognito.

The server should never be able to know.

Karawebnetwork on April 4, 2018 | [–]

Probably a bunch of front-end checks to see if cookies are enabled, etc., etc., roughly giving them a clue that it is in incognito.

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