The problem with this is that it makes you being tracked even more firmly and spread your fingerprint and other info even further even though you end up not clicking a link. I for example often hover over a link to see the URL so I can decide if I even want to go there - there's sites I just do not want to visit or load. This behavior is completely subverted by your approach. Of course, you might argue that this is completely non-standard behavior.
Point taken. Granted, in my implementation I only do this for links here on my site by only applying it to links whose href URL starts with a "/". In that sense it spread your fingerprint across the web.
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The problem with this is that it makes you being tracked even more firmly and spread your fingerprint and other info even further even though you end up not clicking a link. I for example often hover over a link to see the URL so I can decide if I even want to go there - there's sites I just do not want to visit or load. This behavior is completely subverted by your approach. Of course, you might argue that this is completely non-standard behavior.
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Point taken. Granted, in my implementation I only do this for links here on my site by only applying it to links whose href URL starts with a "/". In that sense it spread your fingerprint across the web.