On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Jonathan Kew <jfkth...@gmail.com> wrote: > When I click a Google search result (for example), I can see -- thanks to > the status overlay that shows the URLs being requested -- that it's > redirecting me via a Google URL that is presumably being used to track me. > So although this is hardly an optimal UI, at least I get a clue that the > site is doing something more than simply giving me a link that I follow, and > if I want to avoid telling Google which results I'm clicking, I need to > somehow work around this. > > If this is replaced by the use of <a ping> on those search results, then > (AFAICT) there will no longer be *any* clue to alert me as a user to the > fact that the site is monitoring which result I click on. This allows pages > to more easily track me without ever bringing it to my attention. So I do > think there's a disadvantage here.
I suspect that most end users do not realize this and probably wonder more why things are slower in Firefox (assuming that browsers that ping get to the target page directly). There's also nothing preventing us from exposing the ping attribute in some way, though probably extensions need to lead the way there. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/ _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
