• zen@monyet.cc
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    1 year ago

    you’re probably thinking of the “referer” http header.

    it’s certainly possible that the admins of news sites could be tracking that, but monyet.cc sets a “referer-policy” of “same-origin”, which as far as I know prevents that from leaking to other sites.

    kbin.social, on the other hand, doesn’t seem set this policy (but I just looked at the front page, and didn’t investigate further).

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      1 year ago

      Ooo interesting! this is where you can see I’m so outdated - is this the same stuff that used to inform blog pingbacks? Or just about anything in a google site kit dashboard that tracks source of the referral?

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        pingbacks use a different technology, see the “notification medium” row of the table in this wikipedia page.

        as for google site kit, I’m afraid I’m not familiar with that, based on what I could find by googling, I think the answer may be yes (at least, it may be one of the methods used), but you would need someone more familiar with site kit to answer that conclusively.