![]() “When activated, your OS’ media player will conceal media metadata if you’re in an Incognito session.” The descriptive text next to the setting says: This will display a menu with the new Hide media metadata in the flags menu when in Incognito setting, which you can change to Enabled. If you have Chrome Canary and would like to try it for yourself, type in Chrome://flags into the address bar of Chrome. (Image credit: Shutterstock - blackzheep) How to try it out for yourself It allows for enhanced privacy measures, increased security by not saving any passwords, no suggestions in search engines or the address bar (since it’s not tracking the information to form these), no saving of sessions, and bookmarks not being preserved after you close a session. If you’re not familiar with Incognito mode, it’s sometimes known as “Private Browsing” in other browsers, allowing you to browse online without leaving a trace of your activity on your local computer. ![]() Chrome’s version of this API is named SystemMediaControls API, activated specifically while in the browser’s Incognito mode. The part of Chromium’s code that enables this is a newly created MediaSession Client API, which specifically masks media metadata and replaces it with placeholder information. This change will fix what was previously a privacy loophole that displayed information about opened media content, even while in minimised or preview modes. I suspect those viewing a very specific type of adult media in Incognito mode will be very glad to see this extra level of secrecy.
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