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."

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Firefox is Doomed

[jaa101]

This is why Firefox is doomed if it remains a hold-out. Money from the internet comes from advertising so the major platforms are going to find a way to sideline companies the size of Mozilla that spoil the party. The surprise here is that Safari has recently disabled this feature since Apple is much less beholden to advertising interests. There's a chance that the Safari change was inadvertent, or at least wan't considered very high up the corporate ladder. With luck Apple will put the feature back.