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Is there a way to disable incognito mode in ChromeOS (like a ChromeBook) other than Google's Supervised User? I am interested in doing it on my personal ChromeBooks (they are not enterprise devices).
Scott Moeller
Posted 2015-05-19T11:57:58.107
Reputation: 41
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To disable incognito on chrome/chromium you need to edit the policies. Doing this will prevent you from opening an incognito window via Ctrl+Shift+n, and will also grey out the incognito window option in the options tab in the corner.
If you're using chrome, create the folder /etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed . Or if you're using chromium, create the folder /etc/chromium/policies/managed .
Then create a file in that directory named test_policy.json . It can have any name you want, but it needs the extension to be .json.
Open it in your favorite editor and put:
{ "IncognitoModeAvailability": 1 }That should do it!
Source: http://www.chromium.org/administrators/linux-quick-start and http://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3
Source How to disable Chrome's Incognito Mode?, answer by ryan
DavidPostill
Posted 2015-05-19T11:57:58.107
Reputation: 118 938
2You can't access root filesystem in ChromeOS, so how can one create that file? I guess you are confused with Chrome on Ubuntu as being same as ChromeOS? – haridsv – 2016-05-14T17:35:21.010
Actually you can modify the filesystem, it's not a nice solution as it breaks verification and probably auto updates but it's possible in developer mode: Making changes to the filesystem. I haven't found a way to tell Chrome to just start with incognito mode disabled by modifying contents on the stateful partition or modifying the launcher item.
– LiveWireBT – 2017-01-04T03:56:19.593