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You did the right thing by adding noreferrer to their links. Knowing where people got to your site from without them explicitly telling you is a privilege, and
by josephcsible 3y ago
You did the right thing by adding noreferrer to their links. Knowing where people got to your site from without them explicitly telling you is a privilege, and it's one that they chose to abuse.
- SolarNet 3y agoHave you considered that they may have done this in "self defense" to the abuse this aggregator was causing them? Besides, by your argument, connecting to websites at all is privilege. HN wants the privilege of reading their content (otherwise why not just block their site) without taking any responsibility for it.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoAgree, there's no mandatory standard that there must be valid referrer information on all hyperlinks. It's an optional extra from what I understand. Similar to how freedom of religion also guarantees the right to not have any declared religion.
- _cenw 3y agoThere's a reason websites that host several communities ban such interactions upon the request of the recipient of the traffic; brigading is bannable on reddit.
- dingledork69 3y agoExcept HN keeps the comments on HN, so it's the opposite of brigading.