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Google (and others) please implement link analytics with "ping" or "sendBeacon"

by sirk390 on 4/22/24, 8:15 PM with 4 comments

• by JohnFen on 4/22/24, 9:27 PM

  > the links don’t redirect to the external site, but to an internal redirection link?

  Yes, which is why I broke the habit of just clicking on links years ago and switched to copy/pasting the link text to extract the real URL instead.

  The existence of the ping attribute and "sendBeacon" are why I won't stop copy/pasting links even if they stop including those redirects.

• by LorenDB on 4/22/24, 8:33 PM

  The best part of these methods is that they are (likely, from a layman's perspective) easier for a concerned user to block.