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Your Browser is Lying [VIDEO: 15:06]

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I came across this video on Reddit and wondered if he was going to talk about how browsers only communicate unvisited link styles because of privacy and guess what‽ It was about exactly that. He even tries to see if it’s still exploitable. One exploit got patched and the other hasn’t because we can’t patch humans for such thing. Thankfully, I don’t think the human exploit is that bad because for it to be meaningful you’ll have to have pretext for a human to just give you the information.

That browser limitation is one of a few limitations I discovered and wrote about. Essentially, the things browsers do are for the benefit of their users and that includes lying which can preserve privacy.