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Feature author here.

The CSS timing attack actually influenced the design process heavily. The original design was to use a stripped down CSS selector but we found this too large of an attack surface.

There's definitely still concerns around making sure a 3rd party can't exfiltrate information from the page using this but we think we've found a set of restrictions that should prevent this: https://github.com/bokand/ScrollToTextFragment#security




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