The fact that the :visited state of links was gimped due to privacy issues doesn't help much either. It used to be any visited link would look visited, regardl

The fact that the :visited state of links was gimped due to privacy issues doesn't help much either. It used to be any visited link would look visited, regardless of the website. This made it possible to see where a user had visited across the web, and so visited links only apply to the current origin now. At some point it also became hip to remove the underline from links, and links rarely have underlines anymore.