{"id":302094,"date":"2019-04-08T08:52:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T06:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=302094"},"modified":"2019-04-08T08:53:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T06:53:39","slug":"popular-browsers-to-force-hyperlink-auditing-on-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/302094-popular-browsers-to-force-hyperlink-auditing-on-users.html","title":{"rendered":"Popular browsers to force hyperlink auditing on users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/software\/major-browsers-to-prevent-disabling-of-click-tracking-privacy-risk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>BleepingComputer<\/strong><\/a> reports that new versions of Chrome, Safari, and Opera stop users from disabling hyperlink auditing.<\/p>\n<p>This is in effect in Chrome 74 beta, Safari 12.1, and Opera 61 Developer builds respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Hyperlink auditing involves the creation of links that ping a specific URL when they are clicked on, allowing for the creator of the link to track link clicks.<\/p>\n<p>This is achieved through HTML by adding the code &#8220;ping=[url]&#8221; to a link, where URL is the link that is used to track clicks.<\/p>\n<p>Hovering over the link in the webpage does not show the pinged link address, meaning that users must examine the webpage&#8217;s source code to discover that hyperlink auditing is being used.<\/p>\n<p>The Firefox and Brave browsers, however, disable the feature by default and have not indicated any intention of forcing it onto users in the future.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/301516-windows-7-is-finally-dying.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Windows 7 is finally dying<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BleepingComputer reports that new versions of Chrome, Safari, and Opera stop users from disabling hyperlink auditing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":206806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[58182,207,985],"class_list":["post-302094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-chrome-74","tag-opera","tag-safari"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302106,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302094\/revisions\/302106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}