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Bi-directional links are a non-starter from the perspective of having an autonomous distributed system. Think about it this way, would you be happy if any ran
by somat 4y ago
Bi-directional links are a non-starter from the perspective of having an autonomous distributed system.
Think about it this way, would you be happy if any random scammer could place links into your web page, well, with bidirectional links, now they can.
- tomjen3 4y agoCertainly, I wouldn't want spammers to be able to insert links into my text. However, if there was an option in my browser to see who had linked to the content, sorted by some reasonable measure, such as page-rank, don't you think that would be a good thing for the web?
- Tagbert 4y agoThe HTML way for that is HTTP Referer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer#:~:text=In%20HTTP%2C%20%22%20Referer%20%22%20%28a%20misspelling%20of,web%20page%20can%20see%20where%20the%20request%20originated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer#:~:text=In%20HTTP... Your server would need to log and report on those entries. Of course, for privacy and other reasons, this is probably not dependable any more.