[mikelat]

That's impressive.

Honestly modern browsers should just start ignoring off-domain :visted styles.

[spb]

That would break aggregator sites like HN and Reddit (although really they should really be maintaining the visit history themselves, as they do with Reddit Gold users).

[endianswap]

I tried to use the history tracking that comes with Reddit Gold for about a week and it was virtually useless. After browsing on my phone and two computers only like 1 in 10 of the links would correctly show up as purple on the other devices (even just PC to PC it didn't work).

Edit: I should mention I bought Reddit Gold just for this feature, so I was optimistic that it'd work.

[tokenizerrr]

As an alternative, you can set reddit to hide links that you have voted upon which does not require a reddit gold account.

[mschuster91]

> although really they should really be maintaining the visit history themselves, as they do with Reddit Gold users

Another HTTP request between me and the content I want. Another 1s of RTT (UMTS link)... No.

[DavidSJ]

This can be done in parallel with JS, without using an HTTP redirect.

[mschuster91]

Nope, if you fire the AJAX request directly on the onclick event, chances are high it will not be submitted/processed before the browser navigates away...

[adrr]

You could to do opt in permissions similar to the permission request for location information or for chrome desktop notifications.

[gohrt]

There has to be a better way to indicate :visited, using browser chrome.

Perhaps only showing the visited info on mouseover (as a cursor style),

or limiting it to cases where the style is a color-change that is not nearly the same as the background color, in a DOM element that is front-most z-index... (but this probably can't be computed reliably...)

or just defaulting to disabling, until the user approves the domain or path (NoScript-esque)