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Discussed yesterday. Really, HN, please just disable the invasive outgoing referer tags from ALL outbound links, now that that is possible. Yes I know (as som
by throwaway81523 3y ago
Discussed yesterday. Really, HN, please just disable the invasive outgoing referer tags from ALL outbound links, now that that is possible.
Yes I know (as someone commented yesterday) that the target sites would like the info for their own analytics and marketing. But they would also like your email, income, sexual orientation, mothers maiden name, etc. The whole concept of privacy is that all those entities out there who want that info aren't automatically entitled to get their wish. The overlapping topic of "security" is about resisting even forceful attempts to get the info. Once HTTP escaped environments like CERN, referrers should have always been treated as private.
So please, HN, please shut off those referrers.
- rektide 3y agoBuilding a good case where that sites should only have so so a hand in picking security/privacy levels for folks. These should be user tailorable with our agents or via preferences we can expose to sites. For now I'd often opt to DO_NOT_REFERER=0. Most sites from here are welcome to my referrer, may have that inboard thing.
- musicale 3y ago> invasive outgoing referer It's definitely an anti-privacy feature. I'd just shut it off in the browser except for occasional utility like search result links bypassing paywalls.