Link tracking in browsers

Link Tracking in Popular Browsers http://jmbusinesssecurity.co.uk/2019/04/13/blog20190413/ —article: jmbusinesssecurity.co.uk/

2019/04/13/blog20190413/

The PING function is all about tracking, and has really no other official function. Privacy advocates are complaining as this is just another way for your data to be leaked back to websites and now there is no way to stop it.

The Hyperlink Auditing/PING function has a side effect that allows an attacker to initiate a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack from your browser by rewriting the PING string from JavaScript. In order for this to happen, an attacker would have to inject malicious JavaScript into a webpage (by no means impossible especially over http (not https) using a man-in-the-middle attack, or through the website getting hacked), and once there is can do the rewrites.