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In some cases it's not to spy on clicks but to hide data in the URL by obscuring the HTTP referer header, eg. DuckDuckGo does this so sites can't see your searc
by glass- 12y ago
In some cases it's not to spy on clicks but to hide data in the URL by obscuring the HTTP referer header, eg. DuckDuckGo does this so sites can't see your search terms.
- Zikes 12y agoThat's a pretty respectable and legitimate use. It's a shame it can't happen on the browser side, though, by tagging the links with something like rel="noreferer".