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Re:Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA by chrismorgan on Sunday March 06, 2022 @07:32AM (#30577136)
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 underlined, and anything else is troublemaking.

(In https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3012, there’s talk of changing :visited to essentially work from the site’s perspective—exposing only history that the site could have tracked itself—rather than for the user as global visitedness does. This makes me sad, though I quite understand the perspective; to me, :visited has always been about the user, even though such first-party link following is its primary use.)

Re:Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA by gowld on Sunday March 06, 2022 @09:54AM (#30577928)
The think you like is client link styling, not :visited attribute manipulated via CSS/JS.
Re:Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA by magicalist on Sunday March 06, 2022 @11:33AM (#30578684)
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.