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verifytheposter leminal.space verifytheposter@leminal.space
Joined: 2026-05-29
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cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/35928968

A reminder for those using chromium based browsers. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Firefox can keep visited links purple and does not allow any website to know whether a link is purple or has been visited.

If “Partition the Visited Link Database, including ‘self-links’” is enabled,
Chrome cannot keep visited links purple globally.

If “Partition the Visited Link Database, including ‘self-links’” is disabled,
Chrome keeps visited links purple globally, but websites can sniff CSS and determine which links you have visited.

From this perspective firefox seems like a better choice.

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newton piefed.social newton@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-08-23
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https://privacytools.io/

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