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Anthony Spadafora

Google will finally stop this 20-year Chrome bug from leaking your browsing history to other websites — here’s how

Chrome browser on laptop.

With the release of Chrome 136, Google will finally address a long-standing privacy issue in its browser that allowed websites to determine your browsing history by using previously visited links.

Have you ever done a Google search for something and noticed that some of the links in the search results were purple? Well, this is because you previously visited those sites. As BleepingComputer points out though, those links are stylized as “:visited”.

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