On: Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA (2022)

[nnx]

It’s high time browsers stop supporting :visited on cross-domain links by default.

No need to remove the feature completely, just not applying :visited on cross-domain links would fix privacy leak, while keeping most legit uses of :visited working fine.

[cobbal → nnx]

I really hope not. If I'm repeatedly googling a related set of queries, knowing which pages I've already looked at is hugely helpful.

[nnx → cobbal]

It's been years that Google search result pages do not link directly to content, but goes through a google.com "redirect" url, so this use case could still work.

[markburns → nnx]

sounds like that's an obvious loophole to get around the protection then if they did allow same domain only

edit: no I'm wrong, it's early here and I've not had coffee

[adrr → cobbal]

its also useful on hacker news to see what i already visited especially when headlines get changed.

[g3ger1ub → nnx]

Something similar to browser fingerprints?