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This is so old it’s even mentioned in the spec as something a browser can choose to avoid:

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/selector.html#link-pseudo-classes

Note. It is possible for style sheet authors to abuse the :link and :visited pseudo-classes to determine which sites a user has visited without the user's consent.

UAs may therefore treat all links as unvisited links, or implement other measures to preserve the user's privacy while rendering visited and unvisited links differently. See [P3P] for more information about handling privacy.



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