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Most often I see these things in my referral logs from sites that want to hide which exact page has a link to your content. Common on certain types of web forum
by byuu 14y ago
Most often I see these things in my referral logs from sites that want to hide which exact page has a link to your content. Common on certain types of web forums, for example. Eg www.forumsite.com/?redirect=yoursite
There are also services like anonym.to for when people try and hide even the host site entirely. I've seen forums that turn all outgoing links into anonym.to links.
- Evbn 14y agoHuh? It makes more sense to use redirects for tracking than to fight it. Why would anyone use anonym.to instead of just turning off referer in the browser?
- fhars 14y agoYou cannot turn off the referer passing in the browsers of all visitors to your website.
- mseebach 14y agoBecause you don't always want someone to know you're talking about them - maybe you're 133t next-gen anonymous hax0rs. Or maybe your forum is "private" and "exclusive" and you have the audacity to believe anyone at all cares. Of course, anyone who actually cares about infosec stuff would know better than to hand over this data to anonym.to.