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Referral headers can be very useful for tracking down fraud and phishing activities. Although tracking down fraud is usually as it relates fraudulent traffic w
by throwaway2016a 9y ago
Referral headers can be very useful for tracking down fraud and phishing activities.
Although tracking down fraud is usually as it relates fraudulent traffic which mostly effects advertising so I imagine a lot of the commenters here would say that is not a good reason.
- beardog 9y agoSites can outright disable referrers using a meta tag: https://www.w3.org/TR/referrer-policy/#referrer-policy-no-referrer https://www.w3.org/TR/referrer-policy/#referrer-policy-no-re...