<ul><li>Websites changing link colors upon visiting them is a common feature aimed at improving browsing efficiency, but it poses a significant privacy risk.</li><li>The color-changing mechanism is based on CSS utilizing the browser history to mark visited links, which could be exploited by malicious sites to track users' browsing activities.</li><li>This privacy vulnerability allows websites to potentially extract valuable data about users' browsing history, leading to concerns about user deanonymization and targeted advertising.</li><li>While attempts to address this issue have been made over the years, the long-standing vulnerability was recently fixed in Chrome 136 by implementing 'partitioned browsing history' to enhance user privacy.</li></ul>

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