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Blocking Hyperlink Auditing Tracking Pings With Extensions

posted by chromas on Tuesday May 14 2019, @03:57AM   
from the Give-me-one-ping.-One-ping-only. dept.

upstart writes:

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Blocking Hyperlink Auditing Tracking Pings with Extensions

For those who are not familiar with hyperlink auditing, or Pings, it is an HTML feature that allows sites to track when a link is clicked. Creating hyperlink auditing URLs is very easy, as you can simply create a normal hyperlink HTML tag, but also include a ping="[url]" variable as shown below.

<a href="https://www.google.com/" ping="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/pong.php">Ping Me</a>

[...] With most popular browsers now enabling this feature by default, with Firefox doing so in the future, the only way to disable hyperlink auditing is through the use of browser addons and extension. For those who want to retain control over whether this feature can be used, below are three extensions that allow you to disable hyperlink auditing pings in Chrome and Firefox.

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Original Submission

• uBlock Origin blocks this by default (Score: 3, Informative) by The Shire on Tuesday May 14 2019, @01:24PM

  by The Shire (5824) on Tuesday May 14 2019, @01:24PM (#843398)

  Most folks using FF also use some type of adblocker. One of the more popular ones is uBlock Origin and it blocks this by default. You can find it in the addon's settings under "Privacy: Disable hyperlink auditing".

  A good refutation of Mozilla's stance on prohibiting the user from disabling this "feature" can be found here [wilderssecurity.com]

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