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E-commerce checkout codes, etc. are the only reasonable form of referral. In other words, if I give you something voluntarily that tells you where I came from,
by makecheck 9y ago
E-commerce checkout codes, etc. are the only reasonable form of referral. In other words, if I give you something voluntarily that tells you where I came from, fine; otherwise, why do we have so much auto-leaking built into protocols?
- tetromino_ 9y agoTo stop hotlinking from DOSing cheaply-hosted websites. Few niche hobbyist forums can afford big pipes and Cloudflare.
- eitland 9y agoWas very handy to find other people linking to your site, often people with similar sites to yours. Also I remember someone I know got an email that a page ge was linking to was about to move. I guess this was only possible because of the referer header.
- fiddlerwoaroof 9y agoIt’s, nice, for example, to see where your GitHub repositories were referred to
- masklinn 9y agoOr which sites & forums were hotlinking your images, to decide who'd get horse porn.