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<a ping=""> works without JS in Chrome and Safari (but not Firefox) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLAnchorE...

Even with JS enabled, those ping requests (and other tracking) could be blocked; this new measure can not be.

JavaScript is required to use Google search at all, no?

Oh that is true, I forgot they changed that.

It doesn't work without JS though.

Pings are blockable in Firefox and so are the event analytics requests triggered by Google's on-page JavaScript.