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Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA

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Re: Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA

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Post by magicalist »

gowld wrote: post #47
chrismorgan wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like :visited. It’s useful. I don’t want browsers to disable it, but developers to stop clobbering and disabling it on their sites. Any site I make will have sane blue underlined links and purple underlined visited links. I’m willing to vary the shades of blue and purple, and I prefer to reduce the opacity of the underline when not interacting with the link, but I say general links should be blue and purple and und…

The think you like is client link styling, not :visited attribute manipulated via CSS/JS.

Not sure what you mean. Under that proposal :visited wouldn't be available for styling or scripting except for links the site could already know that you visited.

Re: Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA

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Post by yodon »

Pooge wrote: post #15
hoesephgerrible wrote: post #6

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What is going on with those new accounts preaching against online privacy recently? Edit: For the lurkers trying to educate themselves, I recommend those resources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenfour https://vimeo.com/nothingtohide

Perhaps you're spotting recent reddit transplants who don't yet get HN's unique dislike of sarcasm and shallowly dismissive jokes?

Re: Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA

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Post by Jap2-0 »

I was wondering why this wasn't working for me. Looking through my settings in Firefox, I finally narrowed it down to Privacy and Security -> History. I have it set to "use custom settings" (clear history on exit, everything else unchecked), but presumably "never remember history" would also work.

Re: Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA

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Post by Aachen »

Oh nice, I always have trouble making realistic clickjaking demos. This is just perfect. Previously I put stuff like a play button on a funny video, and for a second click the skip button on an ad. This stuff is golden, you can get a nearly infinite amount of clicks out of it.

Re: Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA

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Post by isomel »

hackerfromthefu wrote: post #45
mmahemoff wrote: post #16

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The only time I ever see a visited style link is when links aren't styled at all. It's anachronistic and the feature should probably be dropped altogether. If some users want to see it, it could be done with an extension that has history access (or a coarse-grained version of history). Then they'd be able to see it for all sites, not just the tiny fraction of sites that don't style links.

Counterpoint, plenty of sites I use properly show visited links, and it's a very useful feature!

Wikipedia for example

Edit: oh, and Hackernews, too

Re: Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA

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Post by mmahemoff »

shkkmo wrote: post #44
mmahemoff wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only time I ever see a visited style link is when links aren't styled at all. It's anachronistic and the feature should probably be dropped altogether. If some users want to see it, it could be done with an extension that has history access (or a coarse-grained version of history). Then they'd be able to see it for all sites, not just the tiny fraction of sites that don't style links.

This is clearly not true as you are currently posting on a site that has styled links and also has lighter styled visited links.

Lol true it's not 100% accurate. HN is still in a small niche of sites when it comes to web design.

Re: Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA

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Post by mmahemoff »

hackerfromthefu wrote: post #45
mmahemoff wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only time I ever see a visited style link is when links aren't styled at all. It's anachronistic and the feature should probably be dropped altogether. If some users want to see it, it could be done with an extension that has history access (or a coarse-grained version of history). Then they'd be able to see it for all sites, not just the tiny fraction of sites that don't style links.

Counterpoint, plenty of sites I use properly show visited links, and it's a very useful feature!

Maybe I don't notice it enough, but I suspect the vast majority of those are only doing it because they haven't changed the style.

I find it useful too, but since most sites don't actually show it, I'd rather just use an extension that always shows it.

Re: Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA

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Post by hedora »

ck2 wrote: post #22

The answer to having both visited styles and not security violations is to allow a domain to only style links that are local to that domain and not others. They already do that with referers, there is a security level to only let the site see referers that are local to its domain. I think this is the default for https

Couldn't you reimplement cross-site cookies with that?
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