Firefox 's Ping Attribute: Useful or Spyware?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 18, 2006 @03:00AM from the wear-your-foil-hats dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Mozilla Team has quietly enabled a new feature in Firefox that parses 'ping' attributes to anchor tags in HTML. Now links can have a 'ping' attribute that contains a list of servers to notify when you click on a link. Although link tracking has been done using redirects and Javascript, this new "feature" allows notification of an unlimited and uncontrollable number of servers for every click, and it is not noticeable without examining the source code for a link before clicking it."

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Re:Firefox's Ping Attribute: Useful AND Spyware by Stevyn · 2006-01-18 03:04 · Score: 5, Funny

Nooo! Here in the US, the media polarizes two options and have people in bow ties argue it. You're either in agreement with this idea or totally against it.
Give me aping. One ping only, please by hkgroove · 2006-01-18 03:08 · Score: 5, Funny

This will make it easier for Ramius to declare his intention is to defect.