Major Browsers to Prevent Disabling of Click Tracking Privacy Risk (BleepingComputer)

Posted Apr 20, 2019 17:52 UTC (Sat) by Tomasu (guest, #39889)
In reply to: Major Browsers to Prevent Disabling of Click Tracking Privacy Risk (BleepingComputer) by codewiz
Parent article: Major Browsers to Prevent Disabling of Click Tracking Privacy Risk (BleepingComputer)

And I don't see anything wrong with stripping the tracking. I'd even go so far as to strip it in a proxy if I have to. Making it non optional is shady af. Encrypting it is worse. I just don't even. I'll be Paying more attention to sites now to see if they are doing anything like that and reconsider my use of such sites. Googles crazy links were obnoxious enough but I've been too lazy to bother with them... Anything that hopes further may just get me to act.

Major Browsers to Prevent Disabling of Click Tracking Privacy Risk (BleepingComputer)

Posted Apr 21, 2019 4:37 UTC (Sun) by codewiz (subscriber, #63050) [Link]

This is clearly an arms race, where each action and countermeasure makes the web a little slower, a little more complex, and a little more fragile for both sides.

As other comments have already pointed out, we'd be better off with user agents honoring a privacy-respecting form of ping=, so web developers doesn't feel compelled to escalate it to JavaScript, encrypted urls and other opaque techniques that achieve the exact same result.