Security warning for CSS HACK

You don't get banned for visiting a site, you get banned for being a trader. There's a difference ;)

The scary What admins with their 1337 hacking abilities have yet to ban me for posting here... Don't let people scare you into believing that having an account here is a liability. It's what you do with the account here that will get you in trouble.
 
On Firefox you need to create a file with this content:
PHP: 
a:visited{ 
  background: none !important; 
  background-image: none !important; 
  list-style-image: none !important; 
}

And put it inside this folder:
Code: 
%appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\chrome

With the name userContent.css. Also, JavaScript must be disabled, or else sites can use the JS-version of the hack that doesn't even need CSS - NoScript would take care of this. :)
 
Haha, this is tricky. And it's in fact a violation of the user privacy...
I wonder why browser developers have not fixed it yet. It's not so difficult: they could either remove this useless preference or render the colors in the way any external agent can spies them.
 
anon-sbi said:
There's nothing to fix - this hack only exploits a normal feature (link colors) in an unusual way. That isn't useless, after surfing through a lot of links it's easy to forget which ones you've visited or not.
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If there's a possible "hack" (which can damage the user privacy), then something to fix there is.
An exploit is when you use a particular feature in an unusual way in order to achieve something other than it was expected.
As I stated before, IMO it's not too difficult creating a different behavior for the browser, though I'm not a browser developer.
 
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