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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 pr
by 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 agoIt 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 agoThen you would cut off the querystring. Removing the querystring would chop off any sessionID making it impossible to log back in.