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If everybody was using "ping" instead of their various other tracking solutions (Javascript, redirecting) then you could just disable it in browser settings.

• tshaddox 5y ago
  That's the whole point: to give link tracking a simple consistent interface, which makes it much easier to implement (no JavaScript libraries or proxy URLs) and to disable (a user agent can very easily choose whether to respect the ping).
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  • account42 5y ago
    > which makes it much easier to implement (no JavaScript libraries or proxy URLs) I don't want it to be easy to implement. > and to disable (a user agent can very easily choose whether to respect the ping). This post is about Google working around that and just falling back to the old redirect-based click tracking for browsers that do not enable pings by default. So having the attribute increased the browser complexity, brought no value to the user and only helped the tracking industry.