Users testing out features on the Canary version of Google Chrome (considered to be the most experimental version of the web browser by Google itself) have spotted a new hidden feature – the ability to hide your viewing of media content, like watching a video, while in Incognito mode.
To achieve this, Chrome no longer selectively displays the media content or its metadata (essentially, information on the media that’s playing) in your operating system’s media control panel, allowing embedders to hide it more easily. The feature is named Hide media metadata when in Incognito.
Windows Latest is the first to report on this new addition and found further evidence for it in Chromium Gerrit, the web-based platform where Google’s Chromium open-source project is hosted for people to contribute to its code, and contains several references to this new feature.
Windows Latest also states that Google is looking to bring the feature to all systems that Chrome is available for such as Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, as well as mobile OSs like Android and iOS.