Web Browsers' 'Visited' Feature Creates Privacy Concerns

Courtesy Techdirt  Thu, 06/19/2008 - 09:22

Ben Adida points to an interesting hack that takes advantage of a bug/feature (depending on your perspective) of modern browsers .

When a webpage is rendered, the browser will typically display links that have been previously visited in a different color.

Under the hood, this is implemented by setting the link's style to "visited." A website can use JavaScript to detect this information and report it back to the server -- and could even do something sneaky like adding...


 

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