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Wait, you guys do not block the referer your browser sends (or rather does not send)? Why would you give up information about yourself just like that?
by pferde 8y ago
Wait, you guys do not block the referer your browser sends (or rather does not send)? Why would you give up information about yourself just like that?
- stockkid 8y agowhat is an effective way to block it?
- pferde 8y agoI use a Firefox addon called RefControl. You can set it to handle referer differently on different sites. It can block sending referer completely, or send a custom referer string. EDIT: http://www.stardrifter.org/refcontrol/ http://www.stardrifter.org/refcontrol/
- sverhagen 8y agoNote the sibling thread saying RefControl is broken.
- dzek69 8y agoIt's not easy to find a mobile browser that both: - does not suck somehow, making me irritated - and has good privacy options So I got the message too. On the other hand, I know we are on HN, but I know hundreds of technical people, but only few of them installs privacy extensions, just the adblock. People don't care I think. I care to the extreme and I have installed uMatrix on desktop. No sane person would do that. Btw as "soon to have" startup business I need people to inform me where they came from.
- roboyoshi 8y agoThanks for bringing this to my intention, it never occured to me to replace/remove the headers. RefControl is not working in the latest FF, but there is a new variant called referer-modifier: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/referer-modifier/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/referer-modif...
- pferde 8y agoGood to know, I'm running 45.9 ESR release, where it still works.