WWW::Mechanize::Chrome Created Using incognito windows by default

shadowclaw has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hey All,

Been using WWW::Mechanize::Chrome for a while now to do some automation and while it never bothered me it would open a regular Chromium window + an Incognito window, and all my controls would then happen within the incognito window. I've now run into a scenario where the incognito window is causing an issue but for the life of me I can't figure out how to get it to stop.

Even with just a basic test constructor with "incognito => 0" it still opens. I've tried tons of combinations without success, I've even tried adding {"IncognitoModeAvailability": 1 } to the chromium config files to disable it completely, this just causes the script to error out.
Opening the browser manually does not cause incognito windows to open.

my $URL = shift || 'https://perlmonks.org';
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize::Chrome->new( headless => 0, incognito => 0,
+ separate_session => 1, launch_exe => '/usr/bin/chromium-browser'  );
$mech->get($URL);
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Hopefully I'm just missing something stupid which is usually the case.

Ubuntu 18.04 / Perl v5.26.1 / WWW::Mechanize::Chrome 0.58 / Chromium 83.0.4103.61

Any help is appreciated

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Re: WWW::Mechanize::Chrome Created Using incognito windows by default by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 17, 2020 at 07:37 UTC
A quick test of your code and I can replicate the issue you find, however removing `separate_session => 1` results in a normal window opening. Running your code as is actually spawns two Chrome windows, the one at the forefront is an incognito window, the one behind is not. I'd start digging around the WWW::Mechanize::Chrome source, examining the config/launch parts.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: WWW::Mechanize::Chrome Created Using incognito windows by default by bliako (Abbot) on Jul 17, 2020 at 10:46 UTC
there were some recent posts regarding this, for example WWW:Mechanize::Chrome incognito	[reply]
Re^2: WWW::Mechanize::Chrome Created Using incognito windows by default by shadowclaw (Novice) on Jul 17, 2020 at 14:53 UTC
Thanks for this, it does seem like a bug. I'll play with some of these workaround options.	[reply]
Re: WWW::Mechanize::Chrome Created Using incognito windows by default by thomas895 (Deacon) on Jul 17, 2020 at 03:56 UTC
Not directly related to WWW::Mechanize but in the Selenium world it's difficult to reuse your main profile, if that's what you're trying to do. It has something to do with the fact that you can't have multiple instances touching the profile files. So it may be that you're getting a new profile each time which appears to be incognito to websites. -Thomas "Excuse me for butting in, but I'm interrupt-driven..."	[reply]
Re^2: WWW::Mechanize::Chrome Created Using incognito windows by default by shadowclaw (Novice) on Jul 17, 2020 at 14:55 UTC
Actually just the opposite I want each session to be completely clean.	[reply]