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See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=800693 and associated link.

Summary: To mitigate, either (a) tell your browser not to save any history, or (b) in Firefox, go to about:config and turn off layout.css.visited_links_enabled. (Chrome doesn't seem to have about:config ...)

This should probably be the default ...

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Agreed about making that the default.

Another workable approach are keeping a full history graph, and only showing visited links on the site where you originally clicked on them.

Or, the browser could highlight visited links in a way that can't be detected with JavaScript code.

This isn't hard to fix, so obviously we just haven't been complaining loud enough.

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