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Re:Crooked Style Sheeding – Webpage tracking using only CSS by Tepix on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @09:50AM (#16158531)
Perhaps preventing the loading of URLs in the dynamic parts would be enough?
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Re:Crooked Style Sheeding – Webpage tracking using only CSS by Klathmon on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @09:57AM (#16158593)
Probably not, you'd also need to disable a lot of other optimizations.

For example, a browser will not load an image if it's set to `display: none` in CSS (at least not right away). That could be abused to then trigger the download when CSS changes without a URL needing to be on the CSS at any point.

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