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Yeah, let's break the web!

• jrockway 15y ago
  Why would this break the web?
  • 46Bit 15y ago
    It honestly wouldn't. I browse with some antivirus stripping out my referers and modifying other headers to be less identifying, and it's vanishingly rare for me to get any sort of problem whatsoever. The flipside of this is that knowing where people have come from is very valuable even in non-invasive ways to business, and in the end that's what the internet is more or less about nowadays. The average web user probably only uses a few things which aren't solely controlled by one vendor - email being a notable one, and probably why Facebook messages will never win in the end if history teaches us anything :-)
  • AltIvan 15y ago
    For example: It's very important for many sites to know what words are using their users in Google to find them; witch can help them to give users more relevant content according to their interests.