Does private browsing enables webpages to access existing cookies?
If webpages can access existing cookies private mode is kinda pointless and just solves client side of the equation, webpages still know who you are if you already have cookies from them.
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It doesn't happen.You can check this in the Net log in the "Web Developer > Web Console" (Ctrl+Shift+K). If you open a New Private Window and open the Web Console and open a page in this window to a website from which you have stored cookies then the request headers that you can inspect when left clicking the main page request shouldn't include send cookies the first time you open this page. https://en/Tools/Web_Console Solved?
Modified by Nellus
If you enter Private Browsing mode then the current cookies are swapped to disk (cookies.sqlite) and a new set of cookies is created that is shared among all Private Browsing mode tabs and windows.
Existing and new exception rules (block, allow) are still honored and work the same in normal mode and Private Browsing mode.
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