Chrome for iOS Has Serious Privacy Flaw in Incognito Mode [video](parall.ax)
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Chrome for iOS Has Serious Privacy Flaw in Incognito Mode [video]
http://parall.ax/blog/view/2959/chrome-on-ios-7-leaks-searches-in-incognito-mode
Searches are leaked across from incognito mode to the normal browser. This is especially bad given that Chrome has a unified search bar.
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Pardon my cynicism, but it's hardly in Google's self-interest to have a true "incognito mode" in any browser that you use.
It's why the word Incognito in Chrome for iOS has an asterisk next to it:
"On Chrome for iOS, due to platform limitation regular and incognito* tabs share HTML5 local storage, which is typically used by sites to store files on your device (client-side caching) or to provide offline functionality. This means the same sites can always access their data in this storage in both regular and incognito* tabs. Incognito* tabs will still keep browsing history and cookies separate from regular tabs, which are cleared once those tabs are closed."
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95464?hl=en
"On Chrome for iOS, due to platform limitation regular and incognito* tabs share HTML5 local storage, which is typically used by sites to store files on your device (client-side caching) or to provide offline functionality. This means the same sites can always access their data in this storage in both regular and incognito* tabs. Incognito* tabs will still keep browsing history and cookies separate from regular tabs, which are cleared once those tabs are closed."
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95464?hl=en
Sounds to me like we need an option like delete cookies for local storage as well.