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sp332 on June 25, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: History theft with CSS Boolean algebra

I'm not sure how they fix :visited but the URL on that page looks like this:

  href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0CB8QFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fycombinator.com%2F&amp;ei=OtmqU9TnN9KNqAbhwYDoAw&amp;usg=AFQjCNFz8v92zbzOCTKbQaynlEeOQbu1NA&amp;sig2=loQ5iO_OGgdXSsdzQ5jqxw"

Aldo_MX on June 25, 2014 [–]

They change the URL the moment you press any mouse button.

So when you release the mouse button and the contextual menu gets displayed, it already has the new link with tracking included.

This is pure evilness by your favorite don't-do-evil company.

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