1398821 - Privacy leak reproducing an html5 video, even if in private browsing. Firefox puts a notification in the android notification bar with page title. This notification appears in android notifications log, even if you browsed in private mode

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1431329

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Audio/Video, defect, P2)

Description

[Stefano Costi]

Attachment: firefox-in-android-notification-log.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:55.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/55.0
Build ID: 20170824053622

Steps to reproduce:

1) Activate private mode
2) Visit a page with an html5 video (youtube it's ok)
3) Reproduce the video


Actual results:

1) A notification with page title appears in android notification bar
2) This notification is saved in android notifications log


Expected results:

Due to private mode, notification should not be saved in notifications log. If not possible, then no notification should appear in notification bar when reproducing a video in private mode

Comment 1

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

Compare also https://wicg.github.io/mediasession/#incognito-mode-privacy, even though the notifications log on Android is somewhat of a hidden feature.