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Several Major Browsers to Prevent Disabling of Click-Tracking 'Hyperlink Auditing' (bleepingcomputer.com)
x_t0ken_407 quotes BleepingComputer: A HTML standard called hyperlink auditing that allows sites to track link clicks is enabled by default on Safari, Chrome, Opera, and Microsoft Edge, but will soon have no way to disable it. As it is considered a privacy risk, browsers previously allowed you to disable this feature. Now they are going in the opposite direction.
Hyperlink auditing is an HTML standard that allows the creation of special links that ping back to a specified URL when they are clicked on. These pings are done in the form of a POST request to the specified web page that can then examine the request headers to see what page the link was clicked on.
The article concludes that "Firefox and Brave win the award" for people who want this click-tracking capability disabled -- since "only Brave and Firefox currently disable it by default, and do not appear to have any plans on enabling it in the future."
Hyperlink auditing is an HTML standard that allows the creation of special links that ping back to a specified URL when they are clicked on. These pings are done in the form of a POST request to the specified web page that can then examine the request headers to see what page the link was clicked on.
The article concludes that "Firefox and Brave win the award" for people who want this click-tracking capability disabled -- since "only Brave and Firefox currently disable it by default, and do not appear to have any plans on enabling it in the future."
I loathe links made in that manner because when you right-click them they aren't treated as links so you can't open them in a new tab with a right-click or copy the link etc. That is a mistake IMO, if it's a link when you left-click it then it should also be treated as a link when you right-click it.
Waterfox - a Firefox fork with legacy extension support, security updates and better privacy by default.
Look folks, as long as Google has control of the browser engine source code, Google has you by the short hairs. Worse, control of the binaries as in Android. Open source or not. Not only is Firefox just an all round nicer browser to use (my opinion, if you disagree then please direct your fan mail to Larry Page) it is the only browser that gives a toss about your privacy.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
eventually cave in.
Firefox users used to be able to check a preferences box to enable/disable Javascript. There were some sites I would only visit with JS disabled first, and others where I wanted it enabled. I assumed the Mozilla team would eventually do the user-friendly thing and allow preferences to be set for certain oft-visited websites (perhaps a user-editable file listing special websites and whether to enable audi,video,popups,JavaScript and preserve cookies when otherwise clearing them) but nope - they appear to have caved to ad sellers and disabled the disabling of JS.
They seem to currently also be ignoring the option to disable popups.
The users get the browser for free, so they are NOT the customer.
The advertizers are directly or indirectly donating money to the Mozilla Foundation, so THEY are the customer and they will get what they want as soon as enough people at Mozilla decide to relax their principles.
You deranged idiots are incredible. You clearly want a police state where any person can be locked up on a whim if the "right people" disagree with them, and you think of yourselves as the "right people".
History is littered with the corpses of the victims of tyranny who themselves enabled that tyranny in the dreams of using it to oppress their political opponents.
At least the Trumpsters chanting "Lock her up!" had a list of actual violations of actual laws for which they wanter her locked up. The FBI even admitted to that list when James Comey infamously stated that "no reasonable" prosecutor would prosecuter her for her crimes, and then moments later announced that if anybody else did the same thing, that person WOULD be prosecuted. You people who've been snorting some sort of drug from Rachel Maddow or Chris Hayes or Chris Cuomo, or Don Lemon, etc have no flipping idea of what laws you imagine Trump has violated.
Morons.
Or go around the other way - use this to generate faked pingbacks in large volume rendering the data collected useless.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
Apple probably did it for the same reason everyone else did - it actually enhances privacy.
There are two ways you can audit clicks on links. You can use the proper HTML hyperlink auditing system, or you can write some horrible Javascript. The HTML hyperlink auditing system can be optimized by the browser for performance, and blocked by extensions, and means you get a real link instead of some Javascript that can't be copy/pasted or opened in a new tab.
By encouraging everyone to use HTML hyperlink auditing it actually improves privacy by making it easier to block and making links work like they are supposed to.
The next step will be to disable the Javascript option. Don't allow OnClick() to rewrite the page URL.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC