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by fleddr 1820 days ago
I'm glad you mention this, thought I was the only one. I've been experiencing this on facebook.com, for years.

I'm puzzled how this is even technically possible. A website isn't supposed to be able to clear the history of where I came from?
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greenshackle2 1820 days ago
It's Firefox doing it to prevent Facebook (and Instagram) from scraping your history.

If you're not on Firefox, then I don't know.

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fleddr 1820 days ago
That makes total sense, thanks!
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commoner 1819 days ago
Is there an announcement, help page, or issue/commit explaining this feature?
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greenshackle2 1819 days ago
There's this:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/facebookcontainer/

I'm not sure if it's built into some versions now?

It does it on my Windows computer but not my Linux laptop, and I don't remember explicitly installing this extension on either.

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gabes 1819 days ago
Ah of course. Shows how I hold my bias toward Facebook :facepalm:
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