Highlighted Texts Not Supported in Brave

Mattches · September 12, 2023, 12:06am

Looks like we cut this feature for privacy/security implications:

Implement text-fragments (with sufficient privacy protections)

opened 10:32PM - 17 May 22 UTC

privacy priority/P4 OS/Android privacy/chromium-redqueen OS/Desktop

Chrome ships a feature called "[Text Fragments](https://web.dev/text-fragments/)…" that allow for, effectively, automatically scrolling to text in the page. It seems useful, but has open and known privacy risks [1](https://xsleaks.dev/docs/attacks/experiments/scroll-to-text-fragment/), [2](https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment/issues/76). Brave would like to implement, but we don't feel comfortable doing so as is. We should prompt users before respecting / scrolling to the text fragment, with browser-controlled UI asking something lilke: ``` Would you like to scroll to text "X" (if it exists) 1. Yes 2. No [ ] Don't ask again for this site ``` If the user selects "yes", we should visibly scroll the user display to the text fragment (if it exists) This would make it further difficult for the the linking page to use it to probe page contents, and significantly reduce the chance for user confusion / phisihing / credential stealing

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Highlighted Texts Not Supported in Brave

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