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Interesting! Any idea why HN sets the referrer to origin?
by cpach 9y ago
Interesting! Any idea why HN sets the referrer to origin?
- yahelc 9y agoThe HackerNews repo is gone (and thus the issue), but at one point this was a Github issue I successfully filed to get HN to add it so their referral data for non-SSL pages wouldn't be lost: https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues/68 https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues/68 (Background: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7197520 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7197520) IIRC, I think the developer was open to adding a referral, but not have it leak any on-site information, so this was a compromise.