On privacy

[under construction: there is so much to cover..]

Hyperlink auditing

I became aware about "hyperlink-auditing" after reading this post.

Reference: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/links.html#hyperlink-auditing.

Starting with version 0.9.9.0, it is possible to block requests which purpose is to serve hyperlink-auditing information. The default setting is to block all hyperlink-auditing requests -- as there are no benefit to the users to have their browsing activity tracked.

On the technical side, I have observed that hyperlink-auditing requests are reported as request of type other, in the behind-the-scene matrix. So this means that hyperlink-auditing requests will be reported in the other column of the matrix, and may be reported on the matrix of the page where the request originate or in the behind-the-scene matrix if HTTPSB does not have enough information to bind the request to the page where it occurred.

Note: I verified that disabling the chrome://flags/#disable-hyperlink-auditing flag does not disable hyperlink-auditing. Do not rely on this setting.