Mozilla Firefox to Enable Hyperlink Ping Tracking by Default

For those not familiar with hyperlink auditing, it is a HTML feature that allows web sites to track link clicks by adding the “ping=” attribute to HTML links. “We agree that enabling the hyperlink ping attribute that is commonly used for hyperlink auditing isn’t a question of privacy but a matter of improving the user experience by giving websites a better way to implement hyperlink auditing without the performance downsides of the other existing methods listed in the webkit.org blog post. “We don’t believe that offering an option to disable this feature alone will have any meaningful improvement in the user privacy, since website can (and often already do) detect the various supported mechanisms for hyperlink auditing in each browser and disabling the more user friendly mechanisms will cause them to fall back to the less user friendly ones, without actually disabling the hyperlink auditing functionality itself.”

Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com