Firefox 's Ping Attribute: Useful or Spyware?

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."

Comments

Firefox's Ping Attribute: Useful!!!

[sebastinator]

Hi! Firefox Rocks and everybody's know that! If they decide to implement this feature, I trust them because they code excellent products. Anyway even if they are some spam, it will be a millions times better that Internet Explorer that is a really crap product. Even if Firefox corrupt my entire hard disk, I will choose this one because I hate the microsoft products that are too expensive for the poor quality that it represents! Trust Firefox, they know waht they does and more than we thought!!! Thanks, Sebastinator! Thank you for visiting my web site and posting your comments on the forum!