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Re:Identifying People by Their Browsing Histories by elliekelly on Monday August 31, 2020 @11:16AM (#24332299)
Does iOS allow access to that information?
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Re:Identifying People by Their Browsing Histories by hombre_fatal on Monday August 31, 2020 @12:05PM (#24332767)
Making a request to any 3rd party domain on every page of the internet is what gives people access to that information.

It's not talking about a browser.getHistory() API. Owning the 3rd party resource (CDNs, analytics) that is loaded on most big websites is far better than that.

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