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> I have honestly no idea where all this traffic is coming from. Aren't there HTTP request headers that tip this off?

• metadat 3y ago
  The referer header behavior changed for https 7+ years ago. As I recall, it can be crippled by the source site (e.g. inbound google traffic). https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21922143/why-isnt-the-the-referer-header-removed-for-google-https-http https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21922143/why-isnt-the-th... Why this is good for anyone other than Google Analytics is beyond my current understanding.
  • henriquez 3y ago
    It’s a privacy measure so that third party sites can’t see which page a user is coming from. It’s not necessarily anyone’s business to know the previous URL in a user’s browser history.
  • xnx 3y ago
    > Why this is good for anyone other than Google Analytics is beyond my current understanding. Better privacy. There have long been extensions to strip out or fake referrer information from requests.