That’s what hyperlink auditing with the ping attribute is for: https://html.spec...

JimDabell on May 15, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: A URL Lengthener

That’s what hyperlink auditing with the ping attribute is for:

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/links.html#hyperlink-...

You put a `ping` attribute on a link, and when the user follows the link, the browser sends a request to the ping URL notifying it of the action.

Firefox disables it by default, which doesn’t seem like much of a privacy win considering JavaScript is enabled by default and can polyfill this functionality.

moshmosh on May 15, 2021 [–]

Giving Javascript the ability to make requests without asking the user via dialog for each one—if we must allow it at all—was a mistake.