I just saw this article about a new feature coming in Chrome 80, https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2020/02/23/google-chrome-80-upgrade-deep-linking-update-chrome-browser/ That seems like something we want to not include in debian chromium. I ran a grep on the current unstable source and this is what it found. $ rgrep ScrollToTextFr third_party/blink/renderer/core/page/scrolling/text_fragment_anchor.cc: // https://wicg.github.io/ScrollToTextFragment/#should-allow-text-fragment third_party/blink/renderer/core/frame/fragment_directive.idl:// https://github.com/WICG/ScrollToTextFragment Based on those I then searched for "TextFragment" which found a lot more (but I don't know which are relevent). Maybe someone who understands the chromium source can investigate further. Thanks,
I just rediscovered #952411 which I filed on 23 Feb 2020. Here's an update. This "ScrollToTextFragment" feature seems to have been added. Currently on 115.0.5790.98-1~deb11u1 if I go to the following example https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cat&oldid=916388819#:~:text=Claws-,Like%20almost,the%20Felidae%2C,-cats it does scroll to the targeted text and highlight it. That example is taken from the draft of the spec at https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment Here is a simplified example: https://www.debian.org/#:~:text=Additional-,information,Debian,-Community It's also easy to generate similar by selecting some text on a page, right-click and "Copy link to highlight". Notes: * these URLs seem to do nothing on current firefox-esr * it looks like Brave disabled it by default * maybe going into HTML? https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/8282 Here is the upstream spec issue discussing the privacy implications of this https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment/issues/76 and discussion about creating ways to disable https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment/issues/122 Since there is currently no easy way to disable, this lead to someone making an extension to disable. "disable-google-search-text-highlights" I have not attempted to determine if the privacy concerns have been addressed or the level of potential threat, someone more familiar with this area should do that. Thanks,
On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:27:00 -0700 Matt Taggart <matt@lackof.org> wrote: [...] FYI, this can be disabled with by running chromium with the following argument: