I guess it was chrome, safari and opera - so slight correction

huh, i've never heard of that, or seen it in the wild

interesting that i haven't seen it in random customer setups at adzerk

I would have thought you guys would be all over that 😉

yeah i may be bad at my job

:rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:

i guess nobody uses it because it's easier to just use javascript

and they don't want to market to the people who go as far as to disable javascript

yeah i bet those with javascript disabled are few, but it’s recommended for TOR related browsing

so I imagine this is to better track users attempting to hide themselves

i think it's there to allow the advertiser to inform the user about the ping

vs javascript where it does it silently in the background

so to be a nice guy advertiser you'd use the ping attribute instead

the part about the UA informing the user about out-of-band notifications is interesting

i could imagine chrome making some kind of GDPR integration where it could ask for consent or something

oh thats a really good idea

you could probably sell a service like that

they'll only get publishers to switch to using the ping attribute if they give them something in return

or use it for license acceptance

like making it non-blockable

I could see that

yeah then they can do stuff on the user's behalf in chrome

like let you block trackers or whatever

like individually