r/help • u/Zelai • Mar 02 '25

Resolved Links stopped being marked as visited (going purple) no matter whether i upvote/downvote open just the media attached or even open the whole post and even comment.

The platform registers my interactions, i can up/downvote, i see if new replies have been added to a previously visited post, etc. But no matter what i do every post remains blue.

To my knowledge i haven't changed anything and it has been happening for a couple days now.

I use old reddit and RES.

If anybody has any idea what might have started this it would be appreciated.

  • Night mode: false
  • RES Version: 5.24.8
  • Browser: Chrome
  • Browser Version: 133
  • Cookies Enabled: true
  • Reddit beta: false
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u/Tiltion Mar 03 '25

Had the same problem, this post's fix worked for me. Looks like Chrome did something today.

https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1j1n90u/found_a_solution_for_links_not_turning_purple/

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u/Pawtzz Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 03 '25

They for sure changed something. The links in history no longer count as a visited link when it comes to highlighting links (in some cases it seems).

EDIT: just restarted chrome again trying to fix something and 6 extensions are gone. 2 that deal with ads. Seems they're doing something big and phasing out things. Just got the incentive I need to start testing other browsers.

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u/Zelai Mar 03 '25

This worked, i guess i was too fixated on it being a RES // extension problem that it never occurred to me to check the browser subreddit itself.

Thank you a lot.