Google Chrome is now running software inside it which may make many users uncomfortable
technology tied to website text, but multiple sources have revealed it is a potentially invasive privacy nightmare.
To understand why requires a brief guide to how ScrollToTextFragment works. The simple version is it allows Google to index websites and share links down to a single word of text and its position on the page. It does this by creating its own anchors to text and it doesn’t require the permission of the web page author to do so. Google gives the harmless“[https://en.wikipedia.
The deep linking freedom of ScrollToTextFragment can be very useful for sharing very specific links to parts of webpages. The problem is it can also be exploited. Warning about the development of ScrollToTextFragment in December, Peter Snyder, a privacy researcher at Brave Browser explained: "Consider a situation where I can view DNS traffic , and I send a link to the company health portal, with [the anchor] #:~:text=cancer. On certain page layouts, I might be able [to] tell if the employee has cancer by looking for lower-on-the-page resources being requested.”
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