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Re: [Link Posting] Major Browsers to Prevent Disabling of Click Tracking Privacy Risk

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>>>>> Rich <rich@example.invalid> writes:
>>>>> "BC" == http://bleepingcomputer.com/ writes:

	[Cross-posting to news:comp.infosystems.www.misc.]

 > <URL:https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/major-browsers-to
 > -prevent-disabling-of-click-tracking-privacy-risk/>

 BC> A HTML standard called hyperlink auditing that allows sites to track
 BC> link clicks is enabled by default on Safari, Chrome, Opera, and
 BC> Microsoft Edge, but will soon have no way to disable it.  As it is
 BC> considered a privacy risk, browsers previously allowed you to
 BC> disable this feature.  Now they are going in the opposite direction.

 BC> Hyperlink auditing is a HTML standard

	Wait a minute; like, a W3C standard?  You know, the body that
	represents the interests of all the WWW users -- such as Google,
	Netflix, and the rest of the gang?

	Yeah, I'm surprised beyond belief that they have such a privacy
	threat standardized, and that that same Google is going out of
	their way to disallow opting-out.  After all, their users' best
	interests are at the stake.  Financial ones, too.

[...]

PS.  Can we have a community hypertext markup standard already?  Please?

-- 
FSF associate member #7257  http://am-1.org/~ivan/

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[Link Posting] Major Browsers to Prevent Disabling of Click Tracking Privacy Risk Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-04-07 14:11 +0000
  Re: [Link Posting] Major Browsers to Prevent Disabling of Click Tracking Privacy Risk Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2019-04-07 16:10 +0100
    Re: [Link Posting] Major Browsers to Prevent Disabling of Click Tracking Privacy Risk Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-04-07 17:03 +0000
      Re: [Link Posting] Major Browsers to Prevent Disabling of Click Tracking Privacy Risk Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-04-08 01:38 +0000
      Re: [Link Posting] Major Browsers to Prevent Disabling of Click Tracking Privacy Risk Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2019-04-08 20:15 +0000
        Re: [Link Posting] Major Browsers to Prevent Disabling of Click Tracking Privacy Risk not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-04-08 22:28 +0000
  Re: [Link Posting] Major Browsers to Prevent Disabling of Click Tracking Privacy Risk Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> - 2019-04-07 17:25 +0000
  Re: [Link Posting] Major Browsers to Prevent Disabling of Click Tracking Privacy Risk Batchman <batchman@dosville.foo> - 2019-04-08 21:04 +0000

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