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Some websites (IIRC twitter does) open link differently based on the referrer header, so automatically sending a twitter referref for all twitter links improves

by afiori 5y ago

Some websites (IIRC twitter does) open link differently based on the referrer header, so automatically sending a twitter referref for all twitter links improves your experience. There might be more critical uses

1vuio0pswjnm7 5y ago
Twitter does not require a Referer header to return user-generated content ("tweets"). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27056734 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27056734 Sending a Referer header does not improve [your] experience. It is the opposite for me. I cannot tolerate Twitter's Javascript, I do not use a graphical browser. I find it annoying when people submit Twitter status messages to HN. I have a script that reformats the JSON into a simple HTML page with no Javascript. This improves the experience for me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27499784 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27499784