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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?

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Re: [Link Posting] Major Browsers to Prevent Disabling of Click Tracking Privacy Risk Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> - 2019-04-07 17:25 +0000

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