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no document.referrer. So this is untrackable. I think it's a shame, search engines should pass a referrer and hide searched term for privacy.
by dudus 13y ago
no document.referrer. So this is untrackable. I think it's a shame, search engines should pass a referrer and hide searched term for privacy.
- prodigal_erik 13y agoI thought this was inherent in following a link from a https resource to a http resource with a different authority, that the browser would never expose the secure URL (via header or script state) to the insecure content.
- RKearney 13y agoThis is correct. Browsers will not send the referrer header when moving from HTTPS to HTTP URIs. This can easily be solved by just converting your website to HTTPS only at which point search engines will index your HTTPS URLs and you will begin to receive referrer headers once again.
- tonfa 13y agoThough Google strips the search terms even on https to https (don't know about others).
- dudus 13y agoThe goal is to avoid leaking information on the url that might be sensitive. The fact that the user is coming from bing is not sensitive, and this might be important for webmasters. The query might be sensitive and thus should be stripped.