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I mean it's supposed to be impossible for a web server to know you are using Incognito, by design, for hopefully obvious reasons. So by extension it's also impossible for websites to "respect" that you are in incognito and delete your server side session data afterwards. The browser of course handles deleting your local data once the incognito session is closed.


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