I hate that, in the modern web, customizing is so important that websites want access to the link itself, instead of just stylizing the div outside like normal.
That I don’t want any website customizing the color, font etc. of links. Therefore, they shouldn’t need access to any properties of those objects after they have been created.
![[comiCSS] Visited Link](https://comicss.art/comics/187/visited-link.png){kind=link}
a bit of context:
I Still Know What You Visited Last Summer
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_selectors/Privacy_and_the_visited_selector
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/07/chrome_135_history_sniffing/
TIL, thanks
For a long time this protection was so strict in firefox that even the dev tools was not allowed to see the
:visitedstyles.I hate that, in the modern web, customizing is so important that websites want access to the link itself, instead of just stylizing the div outside like normal.
I’m not sure I understand the point you’re making?
That I don’t want any website customizing the color, font etc. of links. Therefore, they shouldn’t need access to any properties of those objects after they have been created.
You can use user styles for that