I've read in many places that ublock is suppose to block ping from reaching back, but in every test, on Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, I can see the ping hit back to my site. So I wrote fping for anyone that is interested.

People saying that ublock should work: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/bcdhd7/whats_the_deal_with_ping_attribute_in_a_tag/en6ld6j?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

My shameless plug: https://jabbari.io/post.php?post=fping.md