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I guess I’ll have to inject some JS to delete ping attributes while browsing in Safari.

This move is very counter to Apple’s privacy stance.

> This move is very counter to Apple’s privacy stance.

Apple are in a firm position unlike anyone in the industry to not suffer losses by taking a strong stance on privacy, and that's why its believable... but that doesn't make it true?

That could be countered by other JS on the page.

Indeed, but I just learned about the DOM mutation API[1], that can be used here. This also makes sense when additional content is loaded later via AJAX (was achieving that with setInterval).

1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MutationObs...

I wonder if whoever sets these attributes has also set appropriate DOM mutation listeners therefore creating and endless tug-of-war.

No one cares enough to bother with the 0.0001% of people who would do this.

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