Bug#952411: chromium: coming ScrollToTextFragment in Chrome 80

2023-07-26 Thread Matt Taggart 

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=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,

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Matt Taggart
m...@lackof.org

Bug#952411: chromium: coming ScrollToTextFragment in Chrome 80

2020-02-23 Thread Matt Taggart 

Package: chromium
Version: 80.0.3987.106-1

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,

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Matt Taggart
tagg...@debian.org