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Firefox disable a ping

What is an html a ping

An html "a ping" is a characteristic of an tag that is used to track when a link is followed. An example: the following link to the front page of this blog has an A ping characteristic: https://bgstack15.wordpress.com The characteristic looks like:

<a href="https://bgstack15.wordpress.com" ping="http://bgstack15.wordpress.com/ping">https://bgstack15.wordpress.com</a>

Disable html ping in Firefox

In about:config, set:

browser.send_pings = false

References

Weblinks

  1. https://www.thewindowsclub.com/ping-hyperlink-auditing-in-chrome-firefox

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