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Disable navigator.sendBeacon and <a ping> #573

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jumde opened this issue Jul 17, 2018 · 3 comments
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Disable navigator.sendBeacon and <a ping> #573

jumde opened this issue Jul 17, 2018 · 3 comments
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@jumde jumde commented Jul 17, 2018

Used by trackers.
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@jumde jumde commented Jul 17, 2018

STR:

>navigator.sendBeacon('https://apple.com', '');
>true
  1. Load URL with:
<a href="https://www.w3schools.com/html" ping="https://www.apple.com/">Test</a>

You should see a network connection to apple.com
@bbondy bbondy added this to the Backlog milestone Jul 26, 2018
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@da2x da2x commented Oct 28, 2018

Note that sendBeacon is a generic method for POSTing deferred network connections and is not exclusively used by tracking. Disabling it will break websites.
@tomlowenthal tomlowenthal added this to Untriaged Backlog in Security & Privacy Oct 31, 2018
@tomlowenthal tomlowenthal removed this from Untriaged Backlog in Security & Privacy Oct 31, 2018
@tomlowenthal tomlowenthal added this to P3, P4, & P5 Backlog in Shields Nov 6, 2018
@rebron rebron modified the milestone: 1.x Backlog Feb 7, 2019
@rebron rebron modified the milestone: 1.x Backlog Feb 7, 2019
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