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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 14 2019, @05:29PM
If sites really want to do this, couldn't they just munge the hyperlink into their own URL that hits a tiny script that logs the click and then sends you to the hyperlink?
ie, something like <a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tracker.php&url=google.com">Innocent URL, Trust us.</a>
Of course you'd see their URL when hovering the link, but most people aren't that careful.