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Facebook, MySpace Confront Privacy Loophole

• aoeudvorak 16y ago
  All browsers are leaking the referrer information, so any unique url representing a user will do this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referrer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referrer
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  • mahmud 16y ago
    And without the referrer a good chunk of the web will break. How many web frameworks and CMSes have a cheap redirect(HTTP_REFERRER) or similar in their code? Also, forget analytics. Without referrer information you will know nothing about your traffic sources.