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Comment by lopis

5 years ago

> It was so precise

Then make it less so. Browser APIs can - and do - lie to their users. For example, if you try to query the color of a visited link, you won't get the actual color, but instead you get the default link color. This is to prevent an old bug that let you basically harvest a user's browsing history.

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