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It makes total sense that you have a website but have no idea where people are coming from to get to it. Why know what is working for your website so that you

• Dylan16807 6y ago
  No idea?? You know the domain, which is usually enough by itself. And 99% of the time you can quickly search the domain to find what links to you.
  • gscott 6y ago
    So then there is no reason to remove most of the referrer. Because you have an ip address, url, and the ability to probably find the rest of the url. I would prefer to have the whole url and no ip address because a users ip address is useless to me while the url with the link on it is valuable. So they are taking away the wrong thing.
    • Dylan16807 6y ago
      It depends on how the site is laid out. Sometimes the url has information that shouldn't be shared, and truncating the url fixes that with very little downside. And it would be nice if IP addresses could be hidden but that's a very different topic.
      • gscott 6y ago
        Then you would cut off the querystring. Removing the querystring would chop off any sessionID making it impossible to log back in.