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> chromium just like several dev over the years implemented privacy conscious options to restric the referer(sic) header just to have google employees silently
by gcb0 9y ago
> chromium
just like several dev over the years implemented privacy conscious options to restric the referer(sic) header just to have google employees silently remove them later on?
well, I guess it can work if the feature you are paying for is not to improve privacy at the expense of google's Ad business.
- icebraining 9y agoDo you have a link? I'd figure Google would want to restrict the Referer link, as they were accused in the move to HTTPS (which did break it for a lot of sites linked from Search).
- gcb0 9y agoyou will have to search. its hidden in unrelated commits. but features that were removed at different points in time are: no referrer/only first party referrer in settings. no referrer in their about:config equivalent at the time (its a moving target). command line option to disable referrer. all added and vanished at random points in time.