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"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 s
by 3xblah 8y ago
"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."
With "standards" like these, it does not sound like end users are involved in the "standards-making" process.
Maybe users need their own set of "standards" and browser authors can decide whether or not they want to implement them.
For example, one (implemented) standard might be the ability to disable automatic loading of images.
Another standard might be the option to disable CSS.
Another might be the ability to disable DNS prefetch.
And so on.
- pornel 8y agoI was involved in W3C and WHATWG when ping was specified. Not sure if I meet your definition of "end user", but I'm a web developer, and I use websites, too… This feature was specced, because sites use JS and HTTP redirects to do click tracking anyway. HTTP-based tracking (like t.co) can't even be bypassed. With or without ping you get the exact same amount of tracking, but with ping at least the tracking can be made more transparent, lower priority and not delaying the navigation. The problem is that as long as ping is less reliable than JS and HTTP, sites will continue to use JS and HTTP. You don't get less tracking, you only get less performant tracking.