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Jun 3, 2025 · Information Security

The 23‑Year‑Old CSS :visited Leak: How Link Color Exposes Your Browsing History and Chrome’s Recent Fix

This article explains how the seemingly harmless CSS :visited selector lets websites infer users' browsing history, the privacy risks it creates, the decades‑long history of the vulnerability, and how Chrome’s latest partitioning approach finally mitigates the leak.