How Chrome’s New Visited Links Fix Stops Websites From Tracking You
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Summary
For the past 20 years, Google Chrome’s privacy flaw has allowed websites to track which links users have clicked, via their browser history, but this is set to change with Chrome’s new update.
From April 2025, the update will lock users’ link history to the specific website they are on, thus preventing other sites from tracking their activity and collecting data.
This new feature will be available in Chrome version 136, but users of version 132 can access it early, by locating the Partition the Visited Link Database, including ‘self-links’ settings and selecting ‘Enabled’.
This will enhance users’ privacy while browsing, making it more difficult for websites to collect data and potentially sell it on.
It is also advisable for users to utilise browser extensions such as Disconnect, to block tracker websites.
