Chrome to patch decades-old flaw that let sites peek at your history

stapp · Apr 7, 2025

A 23-year-old side-channel attack for spying on people's web browsing histories will get shut down in the forthcoming Chrome 136, released last Thursday to the Chrome beta channel.
At least that's the hope.
The privacy attack, referred to as browser history sniffing, involves reading the color values of web links on a page to see if the linked pages have been visited previously.
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https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/07/chrome_135_history_sniffing/

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