Can you take screenshots in incognito mode of Google Chrome?

  • Google Chrome's incognito mode now allows you to take screenshots on Android.
  • The feature was enabled following requests from users and developers of the Chromium project.
  • Capture can be enabled using the 'Incognito screenshot' option in the chrome flags.
  • The previous ban did not provide any privacy benefits, according to Google engineers.

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El Google Chrome incognito mode It is a widely used way to protect web pages or content. That gives users a lot of peace of mind, although it still has certain limitations compared to its standard navigation version. One of them was the possibility of taking screenshots in incognito mode from Android, but this is already possible.

Google has decided, despite not agreeing very much, to activate the possibility to make screenshots in its incognito mode. This is stated in the Chromium error log: traps arrive first as an experimental feature or 'flag' to later be available natively among the functions of the final version.

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A feature that Google Chrome didn't allow

Surely it has happened to you more than once while you were browsing in incognito mode with Chrome: you needed to take a screenshot and, when you made the gesture on the phone, the browser refused to take that screenshot, like many of the apps that by security does not allow it. For example, bank applications. Although, if we think about it coldly, it doesn't make sense to ban it in a browser.

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Especially when blocking captures does not imply no advantage over privacy, as recognized by Google engineers. The same engineers in charge of the Chromium project opened the error log (issue) from the demand of a developer. He was complaining about unable to capture screen in Google Chrome when using incognito mode.

How to take screenshots in incognito mode

After all agree that it is a tremendously absurd prohibition to be a browser, we have to know how to get it. However, it is not as easy as it seems to be enabled, since access to this option requires the approval of external departments to Chrome. This means that, from the beginning, we will have to resort once again to the flags from the browser.

However, it is a possibility that we can continue to use in the event that we cannot update the Chrome app to enjoy this function. Is a experimental route, but it does not mean that it should malfunction, quite the opposite, since the Chrome flags they are very well established in the browser. To be able to take screenshots in the incognito mode of Google Chrome we must do the following:

  1. Launch the Chrome browser on your Android
  2. We enter the experimental menu by entering the address of chrome: // flags
  3. Search "Incognito screenshot", which would be to activate the screenshot in incognito mode. We can do it by browsing the screen or by typing in your particular search engine. incognito mode google chrome
  4. Click the drop-down arrow and select "Enable", that is, "Activate".
  5. Restart your browser for the changes to take effect. It is not necessary to exit the app and delete it from the task manager, but the button will appear below "Relaunch" for such action.

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      Arii said

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