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Of course, it is used for tracking. Fingerprinting and evercookies are the means to identify users, referers are one of the many things that you then track, ass
by marco1 12y ago
Of course, it is used for tracking. Fingerprinting and evercookies are the means to identify users, referers are one of the many things that you then track, assigned to those user identifiers.
Apart from that, inadvertently leaking information is easy with the HTTP referer.
- gergo_v 12y agoI've worked with quite a few pieces of security software that rely on user tracking, and the referrer information was only used (if at all) to tie-in with other parts of the system (ie. which marketing channel brought the user in).