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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.

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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.

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

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.

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

Something similar to browser fingerprints?

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