Have you encountered Incognito Mode Error M7399-1260-00000024 when streaming contents from Netflix? In This post, MiniTool shows you how to fix this error in 3 ways. In addition, this post also touches upon error M7399-1260-00000026 and other Netflix M7399-1260 errors.

Netflix Error Code: M7399-1260-00000024

Netflix is an American company founded on August 29, 1997 and headquartered in Los Gatos, California. The company provides online video-on-demand OTT (Over-the-top) media services in many countries.

At present, Netflix is one of the best streaming media platforms in the world. Its main competitors are HBOmax, Hulu, Amazon Video, Disney+, YouTube, Apple TV+, and AT&T.

Netflix has a ton of movies and TV shows worth watching and it can be accessed by anyone who has an active subscription. However, sometimes, when you plan to watch videos in Chrome browser, you may experience the error code: M7399-1260-00000024, often accompanied by the error message “Whoops, something went wrong…Incognito Mode Error“.

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How to Fix Netflix Error Code: M7399-1260-00000024

The error code M7399-1260-00000024 typically points to an issue with your browser being in Incognito or Guest Mode. However, the causes of this Incognito Mode Error Netflix may be various. Corresponding to these causes, several methods are offered to you and you can apply them accordingly.

Fix 1. Turn off Incognito Mode

As mentioned above, the error code M7399-1260-00000024 is related to Incognito or Guest Mode. What are Incognito Mode and Guest Mode?

As we all know, when using the browser to surf the Internet, there will always be some traces like cookies on the browser, leaking user privacy. To avoid such a case, Google Chrome provides Incognito Mode and Guest Mode.

In Incognito Mode, the computer:

  • Does not keep any browsing history or cookies.
  • Allows each user to enjoy a session exclusively.
  • Allows users to use the installed plug-ins, but they are not allowed to install plug-ins.

In Guest Mode, the computer:

  • Does not keep any browsing history or cookies, too. But users are allowed to view existing browsing history, bookmarks, passwords, autocomplete data, and other Chrome settings.
  • Makes all anonymous users share the same Session.
  • Doesn’t allows users to use the installed plug-ins and they are not allowed to install plug-ins to anonymous users.

Incognito Mode is a good thing, but it seems that Netflix doesn’t support this mode, because Netflix will provide different content in different areas, in order to comply with the content restrictions that vary from country to country.

It needs to determine your location from your browser, but Incognito mode will block this process. As a result, the Incognito mode error is sprung up, preventing the content from being streamed altogether.

To solve the Incognito Mode Error Netflix, you just need to turn off the Incognito Mode or Guest Mode.

How to enable and turn off Incognito Mode Chrome:

  • Open Google Chrome.
  • Click the three dots icon and choose New incognito window. This will open a new window in Incognito Mode.
  • To turn off the Incognito Mode, you just need to shut down the incognito window.

enable and turn off the Incognito Mode

How to enable and turn off the Guest Mode Chrome:

  • Open Google Chrome.
  • At the top right, click Profile icon and choose Guest.
  • To leave Guest Mode, you just need to close the Guest mode browsing window.

enable and turn off the Guest Mode

Or, you can shut down Google Chrome by closing all of its windows and then restart it again.

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Fix 2. Free up Storage Space

When you watch video online, in order to stream video more smoothly, the computer usually will write cache files to C drive. The cache files will take up some space.

Therefore, if you have less than 100 MB of storage space available on computer (especially C drive), the error code: M7399-1260-00000024 will also appear to prevent you from continuing to watch Netflix. In this case, you need to free up space.

To free up storage space on your PC, there are several methods for you:

1. Delete Unnecessary Files

The safest way is to delete the pictures, videos, and various documents you don’t need. This will free up a large of space. However, if you have used your PC for a long time, the PC, especially the C drive, will be full of various files that are easy to be neglected. To find them, I recommend you try MiniTool Partition Wizard. Here is the guide:

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Step 1: Free download MiniTool Partition Wizard and launch it. Go to its main interface and click Space Analyzer.

click Space Analyzer

Step 2: Choose the drive where you want to free up the space and then click Scan.

select a drive to free up space

Step 3: After the scanning process is completed, you can choose files to delete. If don’t know what files should be deleted, you can get help from this post: How to Find Large Files Taking up Hard Drive Space on Windows 10.

select files to delete

2. Move Files to Another Location

If you don’t want to delete these files, you can transfer these files from C drive to another drive or to an external drive. You can also upload these files to cloud storage and then deleting them in the local desktop. In a word, you should keep enough storage on the C drive and your PC.

3. Extend C Drive

As I mentioned above, the streaming videos may need to write cache files in C drive, therefore, the error code: M7399-1260-00000024 is mainly related to the space of C drive. To get more space for C drive, you can extend the C drive with MiniTool Partition Wizard for free. Here is guide:

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Step 1: Launch MiniTool Partition Wizard and go to its main interface. Right-click the C drive and choose Extend from the context menu.

extend C drive

Step 2: Expand the drop-down menu to choose a drive from which you want to take space, and then drag the slide to determine how much free space you want to take. Then, click OK button and the free space will be added to the C drive.

determine how much free space you want to take

Step 3: Click the Apply button.

click the Apply button

If you want to get more measures for freeing up C drive, please read the following post:

Fixed: C Drive Keeps Filling up for No Reason (Works 100%)

Fix 3. Clear Google Chrome Browsing Data or Restart PC

When you use Google Chrome to stream videos from Netflix, Google Chrome will cache a large number of files. If you don’t want to take the above measures to free up the storage space, clearing Google Chrome browsing data can relieve the Incognito Mode Error Netflix temporarily. Here is the guide:

  • Launch Google Chrome.
  • Press Ctrl + H to open the History page.
  • Click on Clear Browsing Data from the left pane.
  • Under the Basic tab, check all the three items and then choose Time range.
  • Click on Clear data.

clear Google Chrome cache

Another way to clear cache files is PC restart. Therefore, when error M7399-1260-00000024 appears, you can also restart PC to relieve the issue temporarily.

To clear cache files, there is also another way for you: Disk Cleanup. This method will not only clear Google Chrome’s cache files, but also other programs cache files. Here is the guide:

  • At “Search the web and Windows“, type “disk cleanup” and then choose “Disk Cleanup” from the Best result.
  • You will come across a window allowing you to select a drive to clean up. You can choose C drive or other drives. Then, click OKto continue.
  • Disk Cleanup will take some time to calculate how much space is able to be released. Please wait patiently.
  • In the Disk Cleanup window, check the items you want to delete and click Clean up system files

Disk Cleanup

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Further Reading:

Except the M7399-1260-00000024 error, there are other similar errors that will block the Netflix video streaming process, for example, M7399-1260-00000026, M7399-1260-00000025, M7399-1260-00000021, and M7399-1260-00000048.

Fortunately, the measures used for fixing M7399-1260-00000024 error can be also applied to solve most those errors, except the error M7399-1260-00000048.

If you want to fix the error M7399-1260-00000048, you can:

  • Update Google Chrome — Select the Menu (three dots) icon from the upper right corner of your browser, go to Help > About Google Chrome, Chrome will automatically install available updates, and then select Relaunch to complete the update.
  • Update Chrome’s content protection feature — go to page “chrome://components“, locate the Widevine Content Decryption Modulecomponent, and then select Check for update.
  • Reinstall Google Chrome.
  • If the above measures don’t work, you should consider that the error is caused by antivirus or firewall security software.

Bottom Line

Is this post useful to you? Do you have other measures to solve the Netflix Incognito Mode Error M7399-1260-00000024? Do have difficulty in performing the above measures or freeing up storage space? Please leave a comment below or contact us via [email protected]. We will get back to you as soon as possible.

M7399-1260-00000024 FAQ

Why does my Netflix say I’m in incognito mode?
Netflix Incognito Mode is an error with error code M7399-1260-00000024. When this error appears, it typically points that your browser is in Incognito or Guest Mode. But sometimes, this error is caused by low disk space.
What does Error Code m7399 1260 00000026 mean on Netflix?
It typically points to information stored on your browser that needs to be refreshed.
Does Netflix have an incognito mode?
Netflix doesn’t have incognito mode. In general, the incognito mode feature is provided by browsers to protect user privacy. However, it seems that Netflix doesn’t support this feature, because it needs to get your location information from your PC, so that it can provide different content in different areas.
How do I fix incognito mode?

To fix Netflix Incognito Mode Error, you can use the following methods:

  • Turn off the Incognito Mode in the browsers.
  • Free up storage space in your PC, especially the C drive.
  • Clear browsers’ cache data.
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