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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by jupenur on Friday July 08, 2016 @02:10AM (#12053833)
Is there a reason to do something like this using a bounce address? I mean, that's what at least all the big players seem to be doing, but couldn't you just as well use something like A PING [1] or some sort of Ajax pingback? There's browser compatibility of course, but supporting old IEs shouldn't be critical for something like this.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a#...

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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by bruce_one on Friday July 08, 2016 @02:50AM (#12053947)
Hmm...

I know a few sites that do it (including Google and DDG); so I guess some people feel it's the best way to do it?

Edit: Ping doesn't look to be in the HTML5 spec anymore, maybe that's got something to do with it?

https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-html5-20141028/single-page.ht...

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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by jupenur on Friday July 08, 2016 @03:47AM (#12054101)
> Ping doesn't look to be in the HTML5 spec anymore

Interesting, I didn't know that. And now that I look at it, ping is only supported in Chrome and Opera, which explains it even better. I would still expect there to be some other alternatives to bounce addresses, though.

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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by foota on Friday July 08, 2016 @02:28AM (#12053882)
Holy shit that's a thing
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