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Re:Show HN: Tricking the user to access history using CSS an... by ultimatedelman on Monday June 09, 2014 @01:45PM (#7869495)
What am I missing? I just got this pre-determined list of links: https://github.com/frantzmiccoli/visited-captcha-history/blo...

I was impressed when this list came up, but suspicious because I hadn't visited reddit or github yet today.

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Re:Show HN: Tricking the user to access history using CSS an... by gkoberger on Monday June 09, 2014 @01:53PM (#7869539)
It's site's you've visited at any time in the past (since the cache was cleared). Anything that would normally show up as purple rather than blue on regular websites.
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Re:Show HN: Tricking the user to access history using CSS an... by yournemesis on Monday June 09, 2014 @02:10PM (#7869630)
I took me a minute to figure out, but that hard coded list is the list of URLs it checks to see if you've visited. Try opening a private browser window.
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