Google redacts your credit card details, passwords, and other sensitive information in Chrome when you share or record your screen on Android.
Google Chrome doesn’t allow you to record anything when you use it in incognito mode, but that’s not the case with regular tabs. When you record or share your screen, you also reveal your passwords, credit cards, and other sensitive form fields.
Google wants to fix this problem and is testing a new experimental flag called “Redact sensitive content during screen sharing, screen recording, and similar actions.”
“When enabled, if sensitive form fields (like credit cards, passwords) are present on the page, the entire content area will be redacted during screen sharing, screen recording, and similar actions. This feature only works on Android V or higher,” Google noted in the flag description.
Although the flag is not currently functional, it is intended to hide sensitive form fields on the page by redacting the entire screen.
It’s unclear when the feature will roll out to everyone in Chrome for Android, but you’ll be able to try the feature out in Chrome Canary over the next few weeks.
During his browser research, Leo also discovered a new option in Chrome Android that allows you to close all incognito tabs.
