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Can anyone shed light on the “Privacy Preserving Ad Click Attribution” feature? A quick glance at the changelog in Trac(!) and the commit on bugzilla(!) I just

• feross 7y ago
  I believe it's the same as this feature: https://webkit.org/blog/8821/link-click-analytics-and-privacy/ https://webkit.org/blog/8821/link-click-analytics-and-privac...
  • kitotik 7y ago
    got it, thanks for the link! So, they seem to be saying if we don’t support the ping element, adtech folks will use more malicious techniques? I like that they are encouraging first-party analytics, and they are making small tweaks to respecting CSP, but something feels weird about this.
    • stephenr 7y ago
      Content blockers (and their built in tracker prevention) both apply to ping elements, but there’s no extra javascript or weird redirect tracking.
  • comex 7y ago
    It's not.