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		kuschku on Jan 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Leaking silhouettes of cross-origin images How about an extremely slow to render zalgo text, switching between opacity 0 and 1 depending on visited?

mlaux on Jan 13, 2021 [–]

Nice idea. I just tried it - looks like alpha is ignored for colors specified in ::visited and the alpha of the non-visited color is always used.

kuschku on Jan 13, 2021 | [–]

well then, use white-on-white vs black-on-white, with subpixel rendering enabled and zalgo text this should still have a measurable performance impact

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