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

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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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 14 2019, @09:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 14 2019, @09:55PM (#843615)

    not my stuff. guess how many people care to search and find applications/sites that treat them with respect? like zero. that's how many.