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moagggi8037yLooks like a Google Play fake 😂 anyway I think the "disable private mode" thingy could be triggered by your private mode blocking cookies altogether. That would be a reasonable problem for me.
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monr0e12527yLocation. Incognito usually hides the location of the user from the site, meaning that rights management cannot be accurately enforced. I hate region-specific management as much as the next person, but its understandable when the service is for profit. Can't be dealing with them fines yo
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mcraz16757yIt's because incognito is hard for apps to handle storage. Some apis are disabled and storage gets less priority.
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Well why dont they just use the IP Geolocation? I know it can be spoofed, but so can browser location. -
monr0e12527y@arekxv because geolocation has been breaking , very slowly, over the past ten years or so. Your IP can put you in a different country, simply because its been bought and sold so many times. Mine, for example, puts me in Sweden. I live in the north east of England.
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-vim-31687y@bitsnpieces wtf! Flash! WHY WOULD YOU FUCKING USE FLASH! FUCK FLASH, FUCK IT IN THE ASS! FUCK ALL WEBSITES THAT USE FLASH AND FUCK THE DEVS WHO THOUGHT FLASH WAS A GOOD IDEA!
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The reason they do this is because some of their premium content (mostly live sports) is free for 5 minutes. So essentially, you could go incognito, watch for 5 minutes, open another incognito window, watch again for 5 minutes all for free. To get around this, they blocked incognito mode.
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-vim-31687y@drGreat5 they could just track the ip, and you can manually erase cookies, and you can also make a hidden incognito mode
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@-vim- Very true, but they went with this. Their engineering team probably thinks this is the best option
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