added ability to disable hyperlink auditing

platform/chromium/vapi-background.js

@@ -83,6 +83,13 @@ vAPI.browserSettings = {
                 });
                 break;
 
+            case 'hyperlinkAuditing':
+                chrome.privacy.websites.hyperlinkAuditingEnabled.set({
+                    value: !!details[setting],
+                    scope: 'regular'
+                });
+                break;
+
             default:
                 break;
             }

platform/firefox/vapi-background.js

@@ -108,6 +108,10 @@ vAPI.browserSettings = {
                 // noop until I find what to use in Firefox
                 break;
 
+            case 'hyperlinkAuditing':
+                // noop until I find what to use in Firefox
+                break;
+
             default:
                 break;
             }

src/_locales/en/messages.json

@@ -175,6 +175,10 @@
     "message":"Disable pre-fetching (to prevent any connection for blocked network requests)",
     "description":"English: "
   },
+  "settingsHyperlinkAuditingDisabledPrompt":{
+    "message":"Disable hyperlink auditing",
+    "description":"English: "
+  },
   "settingsExperimentalPrompt":{
     "message":"Enable experimental features (<a href='https:\/\/github.com\/gorhill\/uBlock\/wiki\/Experimental-features'>About<\/a>)",
     "description":"English: Enable experimental features"

src/css/settings.css

@@ -7,9 +7,23 @@ ul#userSettings {
 li {
     margin-top: 0.25em;
     }
-ul#userSettings {
+ul#userSettings,
+ul#userSettings ul {
     list-style-type: none;
     }
+ul#userSettings a.info {
+    color: #ccc;
+    }
+ul#userSettings a.info:hover {
+    color: #444;
+    }
+ul#userSettings .subgroup {
+    margin-top: 1em;
+    }
+ul#userSettings .subgroup > span {
+    font-size: larger;
+    font-weight: bold;
+    }
 #localData > ul > li {
     margin-top: 1em;
     }

src/js/background.js

@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ return {
         experimentalEnabled: false,
         externalLists: defaultExternalLists,
         firewallPaneMinimized: true,
+        hyperlinkAuditingDisabled: true,
         parseAllABPHideFilters: true,
         prefetchingDisabled: true,
         requestLogMaxEntries: 1000,

src/js/settings.js

@@ -192,10 +192,16 @@ var onUserSettingsReceived = function(details) {
             changeUserSettings('prefetchingDisabled', this.checked);
         });
 
-    uDom('#advanced-user-enabled')
-        .prop('checked', details.advancedUserEnabled === true)
+    uDom('#prefetching-disabled')
+        .prop('checked', details.prefetchingDisabled === true)
         .on('change', function(){
-            changeUserSettings('advancedUserEnabled', this.checked);
+            changeUserSettings('prefetchingDisabled', this.checked);
+        });
+
+    uDom('#hyperlink-auditing-disabled')
+        .prop('checked', details.hyperlinkAuditingDisabled === true)
+        .on('change', function(){
+            changeUserSettings('hyperlinkAuditingDisabled', this.checked);
         });
 
     uDom('#experimental-enabled')

src/settings.html

@@ -16,8 +16,10 @@
     <li><input id="context-menu-enabled" type="checkbox"><label data-i18n="settingsContextMenuPrompt" for="context-menu-enabled"></label>
     <li><input id="color-blind-friendly" type="checkbox"><label data-i18n="settingsColorBlindPrompt" for="color-blind-friendly"></label>
     <li><input id="advanced-user-enabled" type="checkbox"><label data-i18n="settingsAdvancedUserPrompt" for="advanced-user-enabled"></label>
-    <!-- <li><input id="experimental-enabled" type="checkbox" disabled><label data-i18n="settingsExperimentalPrompt" for="experimental-enabled"></label> -->
-    <li><input id="prefetching-disabled" type="checkbox"><label data-i18n="settingsPrefetchingDisabledPrompt" for="prefetching-disabled"></label>
+    <li class="subgroup"><span data-i18n="3pGroupPrivacy"></span><ul>
+        <li><input id="prefetching-disabled" type="checkbox"><label data-i18n="settingsPrefetchingDisabledPrompt" for="prefetching-disabled"></label> <a class="fa info" href="https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_prefetching#Issues_and_criticisms" target="_blank">&#xf05a;</a>
+        <li><input id="hyperlink-auditing-disabled" type="checkbox"><label data-i18n="settingsHyperlinkAuditingDisabledPrompt" for="hyperlink-auditing-disabled"></label> <a class="fa info" href="http://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/hyperlink-auditing-aka-a-ping-and-beacon-aka-navigator-sendbeacon.364904/" target="_blank">&#xf05a;</a>
+        </ul>
     </ul>
 
 <div id="localData" style="margin: 0 1em;">