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> It's a simple way of making it impossible to see the actual Referer to external website It's about tracking outbound links, not about masking the referrer. A
by martin_a 8y ago
> It's a simple way of making it impossible to see the actual Referer to external website
It's about tracking outbound links, not about masking the referrer. As already mentioned, there are standard ways for that.
- k_bx 8y agoTracking can be done in JS via onclick event also. What makes you so sure it's not about masking referrer?
- martin_a 8y agoBecause I've done tracking like that for several years, lots of services are still doing it this way and because rel="noopener" or rel="noreferrer" is the way to go if you want to mask the referrer. Even Google recommends to do it that way[0]. If you are not using it for tracking, there is no point in doing it like this after all. [0] https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/audits/noopener https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/audits/no...