There was a time when WebKit (I think it was WebKit) stored metadata of downloads in extended attributes. Like the URL you were downloading it from.

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This was really useful. ๐Ÿค” Chromium also did it for a while and then they removed it due to privacy concerns. Now none of the popular browsers do it anymore. ๐Ÿซค

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