Tracking. Tied to use account, length of stay, how many reclixks, etc for marketing by/ads and surveillance.

But what’s stopping Google from doing this already?

JavaScript being disabled - Google was already sending analytics pings when search result links were clicked on, using JS.

kalleboo an hour ago | parent | next [-]

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

demibabs 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

	▲	1e1a an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Oh that is true, I forgot they changed that.

Cider9986 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It doesn't work without JS though.

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	▲	googapologist 44 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Pings are blockable in Firefox and so are the event analytics requests triggered by Google's on-page JavaScript.