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And one that would understate privacy-focused search engines, because the people using those are far less likely to be sending useful referrers.
by entuno 1y ago
And one that would understate privacy-focused search engines, because the people using those are far less likely to be sending useful referrers.
- internetter 1y agoWhat search engines don't send referrer headers?
- mdaniel 1y agoI was expecting DDG to be one of them (before I read the report), so I did some digging and it seems that they have <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Headers/Referrer-Policy https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/...> set to "origin", meaning it says that the request came from duckduckgo.com but nothing further <meta name="referrer" content="origin"> But, to answer your question, presumably a search engine that wanted to stay really under the radar could use that same mechanism to choose "no-referrer" and the traffic would seem organic (I also had a good chuckle at them choosing to break the typo chain with this directive)
- entuno 1y agoReferrers (or cross-domain referrers) can be easily disabled in the browser - it's not just up to the search engine.