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Google Chrome Resolves 23-Year-Old Privacy Flaw with New Update

The Chrome 136 update introduces a triple-key partitioning system to protect users' browsing history from malicious websites.

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Overview

  • Google Chrome has fixed a decades-old vulnerability that allowed websites to identify users' visited links, compromising privacy.
  • The issue stemmed from Chrome's unpartitioned handling of the :visited CSS selector, which exposed browsing history across sites.
  • The new triple-key partitioning system ensures visited links are only marked as such on the site where they were clicked, enhancing user privacy.
  • The fix is being rolled out in Chrome version 136, set for stable release on April 23, 2025, with beta and nightly users already protected.
  • Users on older Chrome versions (132-135) can manually enable the fix via a chrome://flags setting for early access to the enhanced privacy features.