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I have: network.http.sendRefererHeader;0 network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferrer;false and Lightbeam doesn't show anything until I reset them. Though I h

• taf2 13y ago
  Yeah you do still get tracked but you really screw up any sort of referrer tracking - you'll appear to be coming directly to every page you visit. Also in some cases you may be blocked because you may look like a bad crawler...
  • ciupicri 13y ago
    It happened to me with http://blog.bodhizazen.net/ http://blog.bodhizazen.net/ because of some stupid anti-spam Wordpress plugin.
• Amadou 13y ago
  FWIW, the RefControl add-on gives you more fine-grained control. I use it to spoof the referrer as the root of the site when I link in and then the correct referrer when navigating within the site. In some rare cases I force the referrer to be google, that lets you past some paywalls. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/refcontrol/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/refcontrol/
• Udo 13y ago
  Your enemy is 3rd-party cookies, not referer headers. This just makes it harder for sites to do mostly harmless analytics and in some cases it actually prevents security features from working correctly.
  • ciupicri 13y ago
    Indeed, there are a couple of site that don't work at all or require an extra step; if I remember correctly, most of them mumble something about CSFR and are based on Django. For example I can't log in to Launchpad [1] or Coursera or I'm required to push "I'm a human" button on the Fedora Accounts System website. [1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-identity-provider/+bug/1198101 https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-identity-provider/+bug/...