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The "ping" attribute is available to all sites and many content blocking extensions (including ad blockers) block these pings. This isn't changing with Manifest V3: extensions will still be able to block them.

Note that on Firefox and other browsers that do not support "ping", Google Search still tracks which links you click on, but it uses URL rewriting. There are also extensions that block this.



Thanks for the correction.

If I were Chrome, I would proxy these requests securely through an innocent-looking API. I hope no one is getting any ideas.

It's probably moot anyway. We all know the direction Google/Chrome is going in. Not much we can do at this point.


> If I were Chrome, I would proxy these requests securely through an innocent-looking API. I hope no one is getting any ideas.

Don't they vet all urls you click on for malware? :) There's one of your innocent looking APIs.




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