Jonathan Kew 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.
Google and DuckDuckGo are hiding these, when hovering a search result link I don't see that the browser will request a different page first and redirect me afterwards. I think for the average user this is hardly different from not seeing any hint at all. > 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. The argument "we make it easier to track" seems valid at first but we can't even prevent that right now. If sites want to and will do that anyway we should at least provide a way that has less disadvantages for the user. - Tim -- Tim Taubert Engineering Manager, Firefox @ttaubert _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
